Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H2738: חָרוּל

chârûwl · pronounced khaw-rool' · “nettle”

Definition

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

KJV translates it as: nettle.

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

Extended definition

nettles, weeds, kind of weed (perhaps chickpea)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H2738 is translated

  • nettles ×3

Bible verses with H2738 (chârûwl)

Chârûwl appears in 3 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.