חָרוּלchârûwl
properly, pointed, i.e. a bramble or other thorny weed
Pronunciation: khaw-rool' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2738
Meanings
a kind of weed, perhaps chickpea (Proverbs 24:31; Job 30:6; Zephaniah 2:9; Job 30:7)
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 30:7 They sound like animals howling among the bushes, huddled together beneath the nettles.
- Proverbs 24:31 I saw that it was overgrown with nettles. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.
- Zephaniah 2:9 Now, as surely as I live,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, “Moab and Ammon will be destroyed— destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah. Their land will become a place of stinging nettles, salt pits, and eternal desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them and take their land.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).