קַשׁ
qash · kash
straw (as dry)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7197 (קָשַׁשׁ);
straw (as dry)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: stubble.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to consume, to destroy
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קַשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- stubble4 · 25%
- as stubble2 · 13%
- the stubble2 · 13%
- them as stubble1 · 6%
- with him into stubble1 · 6%
- as the stubble1 · 6%
- them away as stubble1 · 6%
- behold, they shall be as stubble1 · 6%
- them as the stubble1 · 6%
- for stubble1 · 6%
- shall be stubble1 · 6%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.