Strong H2738חָרוּל

nettle

Transliteration: chârûl chârûl
Pronunciation: {khaw-rool'} khaw-rool'
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Apparently passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly; properly {pointed} that {is} a bramble or other thorny weed: - nettle.

Detailed definition

STEP sense: nettle

Exact lexical definition: chickpea

Part of speech: noun

BDB context: חָרוּל n.[m.] a kind of weed, perh. chickpea

In the Bible

Strong H2738 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

nettle3

First verses

Job 30:7
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Proverbs 24:31
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

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