קָשַׁשׁ

So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.