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title: קַשׁ — stubble · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַשׁ (7179), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: stubble. BDB 1906: n.m. stubble, chaff. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַשׁ

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«קַשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stubble** — 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:** 16 times · **Key:** 7179 · **BDB:** קַשׁ²

### Glosses

chaff (8); stubble (7); become\].(into).stubble (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stubble [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7179/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. stubble, chaff [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7179/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Na 1:10 stubble, chaff;—abs. ק׳ Ex 5:12 +, כַּקַּשׁ 15:7;—lit. as acc. cogn. לְקשֵׁשׁ ק׳ לַתֶּבֶן Ex 5:12 (J); in sim., as inflammable, 15:7; Is 5:24; 47:14; Na 1:10; Jo 2:5, so in metaph. Is 33:11; Ob 18; Mal 3:19; in sim., as driven by wind Is 40:24; 41:2; Je 13:24 ψ 83:14; fig. of the worthless Jb 13:25, of harmless trifles 41:20, 21.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7179/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 13:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/)

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הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃

*Word for word:* a leaf? driven.about will.you.terrify and (et) chaff dry will.you.pursue?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

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[Job 41:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/)

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כְּ֭קַשׁ נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ תוֹתָ֑ח וְ֝יִשְׂחַ֗ק לְרַ֣עַשׁ כִּידֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* like chaff they.are.regarded a.club and it.laughs to.\[the\] shaking of.a.javelin

*JPS 1917:* Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

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