Barley
שְׂעֹרָהStrong’s H8184seorah (se-o-rah)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “barley”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.”
Meaning
- Barleybarley (of the plant) · barley (of the meal or grain)
How it's translated
- barley 19
- and barley 7
- the barley 5
- and the barley 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ruth 6
- 2 Kings 4
- Ezekiel 4
- 2 Samuel 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Exodus 1
17 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 27:16And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
- Numbers 5:15Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
- Deuteronomy 8:8A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- Judges 7:13And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
- Ruth 1:22So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
- Ruth 2:17So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
All 32 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂעֹרָה seorah · barley
1) barley 1a) barley (of the plant) 1b) barley (of the meal or grain)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “barley” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'ARLEY, noun
[Latin far; Heb. bar, corn.]
A species of valuable grain, used especially for making malt, from which are distilled liquors of extensive use, as beer, ale and porter. It is of the genus hordeum, consisting of several species. Those principally cultivated in England, are the common spring barley the long eared barley the winter or square barley by some called big, and the sprat or battledore barley This grain is used in medicine, as possessing emollient, diluent, and expectorant qualities.
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.