Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2738 - חָרוּל charul ((a kind of weed))

Original Word:	חָרוּל
Transliteration:	charul
Definition:	(a kind of weed), perhaps chickpea
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(khaw-rool')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

prickly, pointed

Or (shortened) charul {khaw-rool'}; apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly; properly, pointed, i.e. A bramble or other thorny weed: nettle.

Englishman's Concordance

1) nettles, weeds, kind of weed (perhaps chickpea)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly
Same Word by TWOT Number: 743a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חָרוּלnoun [masculine] a kind of weed, perhaps chickpea (cicercula), see Löw^{p. 153} (Syriac

fodder for horses; ᵑ7Proverbs 24:31 gives חוּרְלָא) — absolute ׳חJob 30:6; Zephaniah 2:9; plural חֲרֻלִיםProverbs 24:31; — as growing in devastated land, collective Zephaniah 2:9; in vineyard of slothful, plural ׳כִּסּוּ פניו חProverbs 24:31 ("" קִמְּשׂגִים); as sole shelter of certain outcast peoples Job 30:7 (שִׂיחִים).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2738. חָרוּל (charul) — 3 Occurrences

Job 30:7
HEB:יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃
NAS: out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
KJV: they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
INT: cry Under the nettles are gathered

Proverbs 24:31
HEB:עָ֘לָ֤ה כֻלּ֨וֹ ׀ קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים כָּסּ֣וּ פָנָ֣יו
NAS: was covered with nettles, And its stone
KJV: with thorns, [and] nettles had covered
INT: overgrown completely nettles was covered surface

Zephaniah 2:9
HEB:כַּֽעֲמֹרָ֔ה מִמְשַׁ֥ק חָר֛וּל וּמִכְרֵה־ מֶ֥לַח
NAS: A place possessed by nettles and salt
KJV: [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits,
INT: Gomorrah the breeding nettles cistern and salt

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