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# קַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7179

**stubble** — used 16 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

stubble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7179/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַשׁ²: n.m. stubble, chaff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7179/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Na 1:10 stubble, chaff;—abs. ק׳ Ex 5:12 +, כַּקַּשׁ 15:7;—lit. as acc. cogn. לְקשֵׁשׁ ק׳ לַתֶּבֶן Ex 5:12 (J); in sim., as inflammable, 15:7; Is 5:24; 47:14; Na 1:10; Jo 2:5, so in metaph. Is 33:11; Ob 18; Mal 3:19; in sim., as driven by wind Is 40:24; 41:2; Je 13:24 ψ 83:14; fig. of the worthless Jb 13:25, of harmless trifles 41:20, 21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: chaff (8); stubble (7); become\] (into) stubble (1).

## In the verses

[Job 13:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/#tree)

הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃

*Word for word:* a leaf? driven.about will.you.terrify and (et) chaff dry will.you.pursue?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

[Job 41:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/#tree)

כְּ֭קַשׁ נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ תוֹתָ֑ח וְ֝יִשְׂחַ֗ק לְרַ֣עַשׁ כִּידֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* like chaff they.are.regarded a.club and it.laughs to.\[the\] shaking of.a.javelin

*JPS 1917:* Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7179.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7179/): 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).