Grain
בַּרStrong’s H1250bar
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bar is the Hebrew word usually translated “grain” and “open”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.”
Meaning
- Corn, grain
- Field (Aram.
How it's translated
- grain 12
- in the open 1
- the grain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 5
- Amos 3
- Psalms 2
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Genesis 42:3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
- Genesis 42:25Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
- Genesis 45:23And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
- Job 39:4Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
- Psalms 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּר bar · grain
corn, grain
בָּר bar · field
field (Aram. usage) Aramaic equivalent: bar (בַּר "field" H1251)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRAIN, noun
[Latin granum.]
- Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel.
- A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast.
- grain without a definitive, signifies corn in general, or the fruit of certain plants which constitutes the chief food of man and beast, as wheat, rye, barley, oats and maiz.
- A minute particle.
All definitions and other forms of “grain”
- A small weight, or the smallest weight ordinarily used, being the twentieth part of the scruple in apothecaries' weight, and the twenty fourth of a pennyweight troy.
- A component part of stones and metals.
- The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain
- The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.
- The body or substance of a thing considered with respect to the size, form or direction of the constituent particles; as stones of a fine grain
- Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.
- Dyed or stained substance.
- The direction of the fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; hence the phrase, against the grain applied to animals, that is, against their natural tempers.
- The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain
- The form of the surface of any thing with respect to smoothness or roughness; state of the grit of any body composed of grains; as sandstone of a fine grain
- A tine, prong or spike.
GRAIN, verb intransitive
To yield fruit.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.