Judges 8:7

I will tear thresh as marg. In the East threshing is done by treading(e.g. Isaiah 28:28), which is what the verb here means; Gideon promises to trample their flesh together with thorns of the desert and briers, i.e. to lay them naked on a bed of thorns and tread them down; so Targ. But the text reads awkwardly; for together withthe LXX has a different preposition, withas in Judges 8:16 (-with them"); this somewhat alters the meaning of Gideon's threat, see on Judges 8:16. The word rendered briers(so Verss.) occurs only here, and its exact sense is unknown; a plant like the teaselmay be intended. Thorny bushes abound in the sub-tropical Ghôr where Succoth lay.