Word Study · Strong's H2738 · Hebrew

חָרוּל

charul

khaw-rool'

Strong's 1890 spelling: chârûwl

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

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

nettle.

3
occurrencesin the Old Testament
3 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
3
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 3 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 3

חָר֣וּל1
חָר֛וּל1
חֲרֻלִּ֑ים1

How it is rendered · 2

nettle[s]2
nettles1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · masculine singular2
noun · masculine plural1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNcmsa · 2
HNcmpa · 1

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The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Job1 of 3 · 33%
Proverbs1 of 3 · 33%
Zephaniah1 of 3 · 33%

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Job1 occurrence

Job 30:7חָר֣וּלcharulnoun · masculine singularThey cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.here: nettle[s]

Proverbs1 occurrence

Proverbs 24:31חֲרֻלִּ֑יםcharulimnoun · masculine pluralThorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.here: nettles

Zephaniah1 occurrence

Zephaniah 2:9חָר֛וּלcharulnoun · masculine singularTherefore, 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.”here: nettle[s]

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