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title: חָרוּל — chickpea · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָרוּל (2738), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: chickpea. BDB 1906: chickpea. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָרוּל

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«חָרוּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **chickpea** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 2738 · **BDB:** חָרוּל

### Glosses

of.weed\[s\] (1); weed\[s\] (1); weeds (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

chickpea [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2738/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

chickpea [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2738/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of weed, perhaps chickpea (cicercula), v. Löw p. 153 (Syriac ܚܽܘܪܠܴܐ fodder for horses; 𝔗 Pr 24:31 gives חוּרְלָא)—abs. ח׳ Jb 30:7 Zp 2:9; pl. חֲרֻלִּים Pr 24:31;—as growing in devastated land, coll. Zp 2:9; in vineyard of slothful, pl. כִּסּוּ פניו ח׳ Pr 24:31 (‖ קִמְּשׂנִים); as sole shelter of certain outcast peoples Jb 30:7 (שִׂיחִים).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָרוּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2738/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.7/)

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בֵּין־שִׂיחִ֥ים יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* between bushes they.bray under weed\[s\] they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

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[Proverbs 24:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.31/)

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וְהִנֵּ֨ה עָ֘לָ֤ה כֻלּ֨וֹ ׀ קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים כָּסּ֣וּ פָנָ֣יו חֲרֻלִּ֑ים וְגֶ֖דֶר אֲבָנָ֣יו נֶהֱרָֽסָה׃

*Word for word:* and there! it.had.grown.up of.it all nettles they.were.covered surface its weeds and the.wall its.stones his it.was.broken.down

*JPS 1917:* And, lo, it was all grown over with thistles, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

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