Stubble
קַשׁStrong’s H7179qash
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qash is the Hebrew word usually translated “stubble”, “like chaff” and “like stubble”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.”
Meaning
- Stubble, chaff
How it's translated
- stubble 6
- like chaff 6
- like stubble 2
- chaff 1
- into chaff 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Job 3
- Exodus 2
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Joel 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 15:7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
- Job 13:25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 41:28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
- Job 41:29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
- Psalms 83:13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
קַשׁ qash · stubble
stubble, chaff
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stubble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STUBBLE, noun
[Latin]
The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the sythe or sickle.
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.