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# חָרוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2738

**chickpea** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

chickpea [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2738/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרוּל: chickpea [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2738/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of weed, perhaps chickpea (cicercula), v. Löw p. 153 (Syriac ܚܽܘܪܠܴܐ fodder for horses; 𝔗 Pr 24:31 gives חוּרְלָא)—abs. ח׳ Jb 30:7 Zp 2:9; pl. חֲרֻלִּים Pr 24:31;—as growing in devastated land, coll. Zp 2:9; in vineyard of slothful, pl. כִּסּוּ פניו ח׳ Pr 24:31 (‖ קִמְּשׂנִים); as sole shelter of certain outcast peoples Jb 30:7 (שִׂיחִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of weed\[s\] (1); weed\[s\] (1); weeds (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.7/#tree)

בֵּין־שִׂיחִ֥ים יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* between bushes they.bray under weed\[s\] they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

[Proverbs 24:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.31/#tree)

וְהִנֵּ֨ה עָ֘לָ֤ה כֻלּ֨וֹ ׀ קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים כָּסּ֣וּ פָנָ֣יו חֲרֻלִּ֑ים וְגֶ֖דֶר אֲבָנָ֣יו נֶהֱרָֽסָה׃

*Word for word:* and there! it.had.grown.up of.it all nettles they.were.covered surface its weeds and the.wall its.stones his it.was.broken.down

*JPS 1917:* And, lo, it was all grown over with thistles, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2738.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2738/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).