חָרוּל
charul · nettles, weeds
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2738 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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charul (חָרוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “nettles, weeds”.
Nettles or another thorny weed.
How to say it
cha·rul
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A wild weed that stings.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Job 30:7
Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.
- Proverbs 24:31
and look, it had all grown up in thistles; nettles covered its surface, and its wall of stones was broken down.
- Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live, declares YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, surely Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and a pit of salt, and a desolation forever; the remnant of my people will plunder them, and the rest of my nation will inherit them.”