'Stalks' in the Bible

But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree,I will take hold of its fruit stalks.’Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,And the fragrance of your breath like apples,