קַשׁ
stubble
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7179 appears — 16 distinct verses across 9 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 5:12 קַ֖שׁ n c ms So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- Exodus 15:7 כַּ/קַּֽשׁ prep det + n c ms In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you: You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Job 3 verses
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 5:24 קַ֜שׁ n c ms Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 33:11 קַ֑שׁ n c ms You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
- Isaiah 40:24 כַּ/קַּ֥שׁ prep det + n c ms Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
- Isaiah 41:2 כְּ/קַ֥שׁ prep + n c ms Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
- Isaiah 47:14 כְ/קַשׁ֙ prep + n c ms Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Jeremiah 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
Obadiah 1 verse
Nahum 1 verse
Malachi 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“stubble” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun קש (qash). Scripture first uses it in Exodus 5:12. It appears 16 verses across 9 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Isaiah. It shares a root with קשש and חשש. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7179 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 63%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 25%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Stubble 13×
- American Standard Version: Stubble 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Like stubble 4×, Like chaff 3×, Stubble 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stubble 8×, Like stubble 3×, Chaff 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7179 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7179 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7179 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7179 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- stubble, chaff
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קשש (qâshash) (H7197) — to gather.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קַשׁ
- old, v. קְשַׁשׁ.
קַשׁ ²
- קשש to be hard, stiff; cmp. קָשֶׁה) straw, stubble. Sabb. III, 1 בקש ובגבבא with straw or rakings. Ib. 66ᵃ כוורת של קש; Kel. XV, 1 כוורת הקש, v. כְּוֶורֶת. Ib. XVII, 17, v. שְׁפוֹפֶרֶת. Y. Peah IV, beg. 18ᵃ הנח … בקַשָּׁהּ leave for them (the poor) the grain with its straw (stalks); a. fr.—[Tosef. Sabb. IX (X), 2 הקש שבחזיר some ed. the stiff bristle &c., v. קָשֶׁה.]—Pl. קַשִּׁים, קַשִּׁין. Y. Peah V, end, 19ᵃ בזוכר את הק׳ when he recalls the straw (with which he covered the sheaves). Taan. 6ᵃ בקַשֶּׁיהָ, v. מַלְקוֹשׁ.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H7179 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּ/קַ֥שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 41:2 | 2 |
| קַ֖שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:12 | 2 |
| כְ/קַשׁ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 47:14 | 1 |
| כְּ/קַשׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 13:24 | 1 |
| כְּ֝/קַ֗שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 83:13 | 1 |
| כְּ֭/קַשׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 41:29 | 1 |
| כַּ/קַּ֥שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 40:24 | 1 |
| כַּ/קַּֽשׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 15:7 | 1 |
| לְ/קַ֔שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Obadiah 1:18 | 1 |
| לְ֝/קַ֗שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 41:28 | 1 |
| קַ֑שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 33:11 | 1 |
| קַ֔שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Malachi 4:1 | 1 |
| קַ֜שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 5:24 | 1 |
| קָ֑שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joel 2:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7179, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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