Churl
Churl
(, kilay’, Isa 32:5; or , kelay’, Isa 32:7), a deceiver (as it should have been rendered); while CHURLISH is the proper rendering (of , kasheh’, rough, as often elsewhere rendered) for a coarse, ill-natured fellow (1Sa 25:3; compare 2Ma 14:20; Sir 18:18; Sir 42:14), like Nabal (q.v.).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Churl
in Isa. 32:5 (R.V. marg., “crafty”), means a deceiver. In 1 Sam. 25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, “hard.” The same Greek word as used by the LXX. here is found in Matt. 25:24, and there is rendered “hard.”
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Churl
churl (, klay or , kelay): The Hebrew word occurs only in Isa 32:5, Isa 32:7, in the latter verse in a form slightly modified so as to produce a pleasing assonance with the word immediately following. The word probably means crafty or miserly, both ideas being suitable to the context, though miserly accords with the setting in Isa somewhat better.
In 1Sa 25:3 the Hebrew kasheh which means hard, severe, rough, is rendered churlish. In Saxon, churl, as the name for the lowest order of freemen, came to be used of persons boorish in manner. The rough and ill-mannered Nabal is aptly described as churlish.