Straw
תֶּ֫בֶןStrong’s H8401teven (te-ven)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teven is the Hebrew word usually translated “straw” and “like straw”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.”
Meaning
- Straw, stubbleas building material · as fodder for livestock
How it's translated
- straw 10
- for the straw 1
- the straw 1
- and straw 1
- and the straw 1
- like straw 1
- to straw 1
- to the straw 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 7
- Genesis 2
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- Judges 1
- 1 Kings 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:32And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
- Exodus 5:7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
- Exodus 5:11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- Exodus 5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
- Exodus 5:13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Hebrew dictionary
תֶּ֫בֶן teven · straw
1) straw, stubble 1a) as building material 1b) as fodder for livestock
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “straw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRAW, noun
[G., Latin See Strew.]
- The stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc.
- A mass of the stalks of certain species of grain when cut, and after being thrashed; as a bundle or a load of straw In this sense, the word admits not the plural number.
- Any thing proverbially worthless.
All definitions and other forms of “straw”
STRAW, verb transitive
To spread or scatter. [See Strew and Strow.]
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.