Topic
Stubble
16 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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- Job 21:18ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Isaiah 5:24ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
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…
- Exodus 5:12ISBE
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
- Exodus 15:7Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
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.
- Psalms 83:13Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
- Isaiah 40:24Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
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.
- Isaiah 41:2Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
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.
- Isaiah 47:14Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
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.
- Jeremiah 13:24Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
- Jeremiah 23:28ISBE
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
- Joel 2:5Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
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.
- Nahum 1:10Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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- Malachi 4:1 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of wicked people
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:7 ISBE
- Matthew 3:12 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 3:12 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
stub'-'-l (qash (Ex 5:12, etc.); kalame (The Wisdom of Solomon 3:7; 1Co 3:12)): These Hebrew and Greek forms are used of the stalks of wheat, etc., left knee-high in the field by the reapers. tebhen (Job 21:18), is a mixture of chopped straw and chaff produced in threshing, which is winnowed out by the fan (compare Jer 23:28; Isa 5:24; Mt 3:12). When tebhen was withheld from them the Israelites had to utilize qash for the manufacture of their bricks (Ex 5:12).
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Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.