Strong’s H2738 · Hebrew
חָרוּל
chârûwl · khaw-rool'
Origin or (shortened) חָרֻל; apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly;
Meaning properly, pointed, i.e. a bramble or other thorny weed
In the King James Version nettle.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.