Meaning of колючка | Babel Free

Визначення

1. prickle, prick (a small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn)
2. barb (anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else)
3. splinter (a long, sharp fragment of material)
4. thorn (a sharp protective spine of a plant)
5. spine (a pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needlelike structure on an animal, shell, or plant)
6. barb (a hurtful or disparaging remark)
   figuratively
7. thorn (that which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome)
   figuratively
8. stickleback (fish of the family Gasterosteidae, especially those of the genus Gasterosteus)
9. synonym of ко́лька f (kólʹka, “colic”)
   colloquial

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“А щоб я через пребагато об'явлень не величався, то дано мені в тіло колючку, посланця сатани, щоб бив в обличчя мене, щоб я не величався.”

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

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