חָרוּל
cha.rul
“nettle”
Definition
properly, pointed, i.e. a bramble or other thorny weed
or (shortened) חָרֻל; apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
חָרוּל appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
They cried out among the shrubsand huddled beneath the nettles.
Thorns had grown up everywhere,thistles had covered the ground,and the stone wall was broken down.
Therefore, as surely as I live,”declares the LORD of Hosts,the God of Israel,“surely Moab will be like Sodomand 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.”
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