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title: קִמּוֹשׂ — thistles · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִמּוֹשׂ (7057), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: thistles. BDB 1906: n.m. coll. thistles nettles. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִמּוֹשׂ

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«קִמּוֹשׂ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thistles** — 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:** 7057 · **BDB:** קִמּוֹשׂ

### Glosses

nettle\[s\] (2); nettles (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thistles [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7057/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. coll. thistles nettles [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7057/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ho 9:6 coll. thistles or nettles (𝔊 ἄκανθαι, cf. Ki; 𝔙 urtica);—abs. ק׳, sign of desolation, Ho 9:6 (\> van d. H. קִימשׁ; cf. Baer DeComplut. Var. 28; ‖ חוֹחַ), Is 34:13 (+ סִירִים, חוֹחַ); pl. (c. נ ins., Thes NöM 169, Anm. 3 Löw 194 Anm.) קִמְּשׂנִים Pr 24:31 (\> van d. H. קִמְּשׁוֹנִים; ‖ חֲרֻלִּים).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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 «קִמּוֹשׂ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7057/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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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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[Isaiah 34:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.13/)

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וְעָלְתָ֤ה אַרְמְנֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ סִירִ֔ים קִמּ֥וֹשׂ וָח֖וֹחַ בְּמִבְצָרֶ֑יהָ וְהָיְתָה֙ נְוֵ֣ה תַנִּ֔ים חָצִ֖יר לִבְנ֥וֹת יַעֲנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.grow.up fortresses its thorns nettle\[s\] and thornbush\[es\] \[will be\] on.its.fortifications and it.will.be a.habitation of.jackals grass for daughters of.an.ostrich

*JPS 1917:* And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs, an enclosure for ostriches.

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