Nettles
Nettles
net’lz: (1) , harul, (Job 30:7; Pro 24:31; Zep 2:9 margin, in all, wild vetches); the translation nettles is due to the supposed derivations of harul from an (obsolete) , haral, meaning to be sharp or stinging, but a translation thorns (as in Vulgate) would in that case do as well. Septuagint has , phrugana agria, wild brushwood, in Job, and certainly the association with the saltwort and the retm, broom, in the passage would best be met by the supposition that it means the low thorny bushes plentiful in association with these plants. Vetch is suggested by the Aramaic, but is very uncertain. (2) , kimmosh (Isa 34:13; Hos 9:6), and plural , kimmeshonm (Pro 24:31), translated (English Versions of the Bible) thorns, because of the translation of harul as nettles in the same verse From Isa 34:13 kimmosh is apparently distinct from thorns, and the translation nettle is very probable, as such neglected or deserted places as described in the three references readily become overgrown with nettles in Palestine The common and characteristic Palestine nettle is the Urtica pilulifera, so called from the globular heads of its flowers.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Nettles
The word (charul) which is so rendered, occurs in three places in Scripture. Thus in Pro 24:30-31, it is written, ‘I went by the field of the slothful, etc., and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles (charullim) had covered the face thereof.’ So in Job 30:7 it is stated that he was insulted by the children of those whom he would formerly have disdained to employ, and who were so abject and destitute that ‘among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together;’ and in Zep 2:9, ‘Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation.’ Considerable difficulty has been experienced in determining the plant which is alluded to in the above passages. The majority of translators and commentators have thought that some thorny or prickly plant, or a nettle, is intended. Hence brambles, the wild plum, and thistles, have been severally selected; but nettles have had the greatest number of supporters.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Nettles
These are mentioned in scripture as a sign that a place was deserted and given up to desolation. In Job the poor outcasts are described as taking shelter under them. Job 30:7; Pro 24:31; Isa 34:13; Hos 9:6; Zep 2:9.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Nettles
An obnoxious plant
Pro 24:31; Isa 34:13
Figurative
Job 30:7; Hos 9:6; Zep 2:9
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
NETTLES
Job 30:7; Pro 24:31; Isa 34:13; Hos 9:6; Zep 2:9
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible
Nettles
We find this name given to two different words in the original. The first is , Job 30:7; Pro 24:31; Zep 2:9. It is not easy to determine what species of plant is here meant. From the passage in Job, the nettle could not be intended; for a plant is referred to large enough for people to take shelter under. The following extract from Denon’s Travels may help to illustrate the text, and show to what an uncomfortable retreat those vagabonds must have resorted. One of the inconveniences of the vegetable thickets of Egypt is, that it is difficult to remain in them; as nine-tenths of the trees and the plants are armed with inexorable thorns, which suffer only an unquiet enjoyment of the shadow which is so constantly desirable, from the precaution necessary to guard against them. The , Pro 24:31; Isa 34:13; Hos 9:6; is by the Vulgate rendered urtica, which is well defended by Celsius, and very probably means the nettle.