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Grain

פְּרֻדָהStrong’s H6507

perudah (pe-ru-dah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Perudah is the Hebrew word usually translated “seeds”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.”
Joel 1:17 KJV
Meaning
  1. Seed, grain of seed
How it's translated
  • seeds 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Joel 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    פְּרֻדָה perudah · grain

    seed, grain of seed

    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.]

    1. Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel.
    2. A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast.
    3. 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.
    4. A minute particle.
    All definitions and other forms of “grain”
    1. 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.
    2. A component part of stones and metals.
    3. The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain
    4. The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.
    5. 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
    6. Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.
    7. Dyed or stained substance.
    8. 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.
    9. The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain
    10. 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
    11. 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.