H2738 חָרוּל

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 3 KJV occurrences

חָרוּל

chârûwl · khaw-rool'

Definition

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

KJV Renderings

nettle.

Derivation / Etymology

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

KJV Verses (3)

Job 30:7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Proverbs 24:31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Zephaniah 2:9Therefore 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.