קַשׁ

Exodus 5:12 קַ֖שׁ stubble

So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Here: The dry stalks left standing or lying in the fields after harvest. Elsewhere in the Bible it is a picture of something worthless that burns or blows away (Exod 15:7; Isa 40:24). It is not the ready-made material the brickmakers used to be given.

Exodus 15:7 כַּקַּֽשׁ׃ like <the> stubble

You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Job 13:25 קַ֖שׁ chaff

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

Job 41:28 לְ֝קַ֗שׁ into chaff

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

Job 41:29 כְּ֭קַשׁ like chaff

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Psalm 83:13 כְּ֝קַ֗שׁ like chaff

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

Isaiah 5:24 קַ֜שׁ stubble

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.

Here: The dry stalks left standing in a field after the grain is cut. It is worthless and catches fire instantly, so it is a stock image for something wiped out at once (Exod 15:7; Isa 47:14; Obad 18).

Isaiah 33:11 קַ֑שׁ stubble

You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Isaiah 40:24 כַּקַּ֥שׁ like <the> chaff

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.

Here: 'Like the stubble': the dry, weightless stalks left in a field after harvest, which wind scatters and fire burns up.

Isaiah 41:2 כְּקַ֥שׁ like chaff

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.

Here: 'Like stubble': dry stalks and straw from the threshing floor, weightless and useless. It is a standard Hebrew picture for the wicked or for doomed enemies (Isa 40:24; 47:14).

Isaiah 47:14 כְקַשׁ֙ like chaff

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.

Here: "Like stubble": the dry, worthless stalks left after harvest, which catch instantly and vanish. Babylon's most prestigious experts are compared to farm waste.

Jeremiah 13:24 כְּקַשׁ־ like chaff

“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

Joel 2:5 קָ֑שׁ stubble

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 1:18 לְקַ֔שׁ [will become] <into> stubble

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.

Here: The prefix le- marks what something becomes: Esau 'will become stubble.' Qash is dry straw left in the field after harvest, the most flammable thing a farmer knew.

Nahum 1:10 כְּקַ֥שׁ like stubble

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

Here: Straw and stubble, the dry leftover stalks and chaff that catch fire at once and burn out in moments. It is a standard biblical image for enemies destroyed in an instant (Exodus 15:7).

Malachi 4:1 קַ֔שׁ stubble

“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.”

Here: 'Stubble.' The dry stalks left in a field after harvest. They catch fire instantly and burn out at once. Elsewhere in the prophets it is a standard picture of enemies who cannot stand up to God's fire (Exod 15:7; Isa 5:24; Obad 18).