King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2738
Transliteration: charul
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rool')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: (a kind of weed), perhaps chickpea
Meaning: pointed, a bramble, other thorny weed
Word Summary
charul: (a kind of weed), perhaps chickpea
Original Word: חָרוּלTransliteration: charul
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rool')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: (a kind of weed), perhaps chickpea
Meaning: pointed, a bramble, other thorny weed
Strong's Concordance
prickly, pointedOr (shortened) charul {khaw-rool'}; apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly; properly, pointed, i.e. A bramble or other thorny weed: nettle.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2738. charul
חָרוּל noun [masculine] a kind of weed, perhaps chickpea (cicercula), see Löwp. 153 (Syriac fodder for horses; ᵑ7 Proverbs 24:31 gives חוּרְלָא) — absolute ׳ח Job 30:6; Zephaniah 2:9; plural חֲרֻלִים Proverbs 24:31; — as growing in devastated land, collective Zephaniah 2:9; in vineyard of slothful, plural ח פניו ׳כִּסּוּ Proverbs 24:31 ("" קִמְּשׂגִים); as sole shelter of certain outcast peoples Job 30:7 (שִׂיחִים).