Nettle
חָרוּלStrong’s H2738charul (cha-rul)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charul is the Hebrew word usually translated “nettle” and “nettles”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.”
Meaning
- Nettles, weeds, kind of weed (perhaps chickpea)
How it's translated
- nettle 2
- nettles 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Zephaniah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 24:31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Hebrew dictionary
חָרוּל charul · nettle
nettles, weeds, kind of weed (perhaps chickpea)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nettle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NETTLE, noun
A plant of the genus Urtica, whose prickles fret the skin and occasion very painful sensations.
All definitions and other forms of “nettle”
NETTLE, verb transitive
To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to excite sensations of displeasure or uneasiness, not amounting to wrath or violent anger.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.