חָרוּל chârûwl

Meaning

properly, pointed, i.e. a bramble or other thorny weed

In the King James Version: nettle.

Derivation: or (shortened) חָרֻל; apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly;

Where it is used

• Job 30:7 They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
• Proverbs 24:31 Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
• Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”