קָשַׁשׁqâshash

Meanings

Same root

• קַשׁqash · H7179straw (as dry)

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

• Exodus 5:7 “Do not supply any more straw for making bricks. Make the people get it themselves!
• Exodus 5:12 So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt in search of stubble to use as straw.
• Numbers 15:32 One day while the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they discovered a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
• Numbers 15:33 The people who found him doing this took him before Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the community.
• 1 Kings 17:10 So he went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a widow gathering sticks, and he asked her, “Would you please bring me a little water in a cup?”
• 1 Kings 17:12 But she said, “I swear by the Lord your God that I don’t have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die.”