קַשׁqash
קַר: cool (Proverbs 17:27; Jeremiah 18:14; Proverbs 25:25)
Pronunciation: kash · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7179
Meanings
קַשׁ: stubble, chaff (Nahum 1:10; Exodus 5:12; Exodus 15:7; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 47:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 5:12 So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt in search of stubble to use as straw.
- Exodus 15:7 In the greatness of your majesty, you overthrow those who rise against you. You unleash your blazing fury; it consumes them like straw.
- Job 13:25 Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind? Would you chase dry straw?
- Job 41:28 Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
- Job 41:29 Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
- Psalms 83:13 O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!
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).