Grain
דָּגָןStrong’s H1715dagan (da-gan)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dagan is the Hebrew word usually translated “grain”, “grain your” and “grain their”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.”
Meaning
- Wheat, cereal, grain, corn
How it's translated
- grain 19
- grain your 6
- the grain 6
- and grain 3
- grain their 2
- like the grain 1
- and the grain 1
- and grain of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 7
- Nehemiah 7
- Hosea 6
- Psalms 3
- Joel 3
- Genesis 2
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:28Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
- Genesis 27:37And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
- Numbers 18:12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
- Numbers 18:27And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
- Deuteronomy 7:13And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
- Deuteronomy 11:14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
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Hebrew dictionary
דָּגָן dagan · grain
wheat, cereal, grain, corn
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.