קַשׁ
qash (H7179)
stubble
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# Qash (קַשׁ): Stubble in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *qash* refers to stubble—the short stalks of grain left standing in a field after harvest. This concrete, agricultural term appears sixteen times throughout the Hebrew Bible, indicating it held consistent meaning across the biblical period. As a straightforward noun denoting a specific agricultural byproduct, *qash* carries no apparent metaphorical extensions in its basic definition, making it one of the more literal terms in biblical vocabulary. The consistent use of this word across multiple biblical texts suggests that stubble was a familiar and relevant feature of daily life in ancient Israel's primarily agrarian society. Rather than being merely incidental to farming, the repeated appearance of *qash* in the scriptural record indicates that stubble—whether as fuel, fodder, or simply a field condition—held enough significance to warrant explicit mention. The term's straightforward definition and lack of recorded figurative usage distinguish it from many other biblical words that accrued symbolic or theological meaning over time.
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So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
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 Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.