Qash קַשׁ

Qash (Hebrew קַשׁ, Strong's H7179) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “stubble”. It occurs 16 times in 16 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Qash, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 5:12
  So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
• Exodus 15:7
  And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Job

• Job 13:25
  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
• Job 41:28
  The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
• Job 41:29
  Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Psalms

• Psalm 83:13
  O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 5:24
  Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
• Isaiah 33:11
  Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
• Isaiah 40:24
  Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
• Isaiah 41:2
  Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
• Isaiah 47:14
  Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 13:24
  Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

Joel

• Joel 2:5
  Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

Obadiah

• Obadiah 1:18
  And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.

Nahum

• Nahum 1:10
  For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Malachi

• Malachi 4:1
  For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).