Genesis 1:11

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Hebrews 6:8

⁸ But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

In Genesis 38:9, 2 Samuel 14:14, and Mark 2:22, this signifies from the truth of good, or the good of love and faith, lost, profaned, or rendered of no avail in the church. (Arcana Coelestia 4837, 6377)