This noun refers to bushes or shrubs, the woody plants of field and wilderness. Genesis 2:5 uses it in the creation account: 'no shrub of the field was yet in the earth' before God sent rain. Genesis 21:15 describes Hagar placing her child under one of the bushes in the wilderness of Beersheba—seeking shade and perhaps hiding him. Job 30:4-7 speaks of outcasts gathering among the bushes and sheltering there, emphasizing their desperate poverty. The multilingual consensus (Spanish arbusto, French shrub/buisson, German Strauch) confirms this as wild, uncultivated vegetation. These are the marginal plants of unirrigated land, providing scant shelter but enough to hide a child or harbor the destitute.