קַשׁ
kash · stubble
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7179 · appears 16 times in the Bible
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kash (קַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stubble”.
The dry remains left in the field after the harvest.
How to say it
kash
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
- Dry stalks that fire burns at once.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- stubble ×13
- straw ×2
- like chaff ×1
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Where it appears
- Exodus 5:12
So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- Exodus 15:7
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow those who rise against you; you send out your burning anger; it consumes them like stubble.
- Job 13:25
Will you terrorize a windblown leaf, and pursue dry straw?
- Job 41:28
The son of the bow does not make it flee; into stubble are turned for it the stones of the sling.
- Job 41:29
Like stubble is counted the club, and it laughs at the shaking of the javelin.
- Psalms 83:13
My Elohim, make them like a whirlwind, like straw before the wind.
- Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of YHWH Tsevaot and spurned the saying of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 33:11
You conceive dry grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you.
- Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely has their trunk taken root in the earth, when he also blows on them, and they wither, and the storm like stubble carries them off.
- Isaiah 41:2
Who has stirred up from the east the one whom righteousness calls to his feet? He gives up before him nations, and over kings he makes him rule; he makes them like dust to his sword, like stubble driven to his bow.
- Isaiah 47:14
Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them; they will not deliver their soul from the hand of the flame; there is no coal for warming oneself, no fire to sit before.
- Jeremiah 13:24
And I will scatter them like chaff passing on with the wind of the wilderness.
- Joel 2:5
Like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains they leap, like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, like a mighty people arrayed for battle.
- Obadiah 1:18
And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will burn among them and consume them, and there will not be a survivor of the house of Esau, for YHWH has spoken.
- Nahum 1:10
For they are like tangled thorns and like drunkards with their drink; they will be consumed like stubble fully dry.
- Malachi 4:1
For look, the day is coming, burning like the oven; and all the insolent and all who do wickedness will be stubble; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says YHWH Tsevaot, so that it will not leave them root or branch.