H2738 - חָרוּל (chârûwl)

H2738 חָרוּל (chârûwl) khaw-rool'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

nettle

Strong's Definition

properly, pointed, i.e. a bramble or other thorny weed

Derivation: or (shortened) חָרֻל; apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly;

KJV Usage: nettle.

TWOT Reference: 743a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) nettles, weeds, kind of weed (perhaps chickpea)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G66 G5434

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

nettles, weeds, kind of weed (perhaps chickpea)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חָרֻל / חָרוּל chârûl BDB Definition: 1) nettles, weeds, kind of weed (perhaps chickpea) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly Same Word by TWOT Number: 743a Total KJV Occurrences: 3

Bible Occurrences (3)

30:7

24:31

2:9

Job 30:7

They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

Proverbs 24:31

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites... like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.