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# קִמּוֹשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7057

**thistles** — 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

thistles [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7057/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִמּוֹשׂ: n.m. coll. thistles nettles [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7057/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ho 9:6 coll. thistles or nettles (𝔊 ἄκανθαι, cf. Ki; 𝔙 urtica);—abs. ק׳, sign of desolation, Ho 9:6 (\> van d. H. קִימשׁ; cf. Baer DeComplut. Var. 28; ‖ חוֹחַ), Is 34:13 (+ סִירִים, חוֹחַ); pl. (c. נ ins., Thes NöM 169, Anm. 3 Löw 194 Anm.) קִמְּשׂנִים Pr 24:31 (\> van d. H. קִמְּשׁוֹנִים; ‖ חֲרֻלִּים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: nettle\[s\] (2); nettles (1).

## In the verses

[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.

[Isaiah 34:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.13/#tree)

וְעָלְתָ֤ה אַרְמְנֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ סִירִ֔ים קִמּ֥וֹשׂ וָח֖וֹחַ בְּמִבְצָרֶ֑יהָ וְהָיְתָה֙ נְוֵ֣ה תַנִּ֔ים חָצִ֖יר לִבְנ֥וֹת יַעֲנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.grow.up fortresses its thorns nettle\[s\] and thornbush\[es\] \[will be\] on.its.fortifications and it.will.be a.habitation of.jackals grass for daughters of.an.ostrich

*JPS 1917:* And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs, an enclosure for ostriches.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7057.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7057/): 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).