Straw
Straw
Straw. The dried stalks of various grains such as spelt, barley, millet, or many kinds of wheat. Straw could also include stalks of wild grasses. Straw was mixed with grain and used as fodder ( Gen 24:25; Jdg 19:19; 1Ki 4:28). The Egyptians mixed straw with clay for stronger bricks ( Exo 5:7).
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Straw
(, teben [once stubble, Job 21:18; once chaff, Jer 23:28]; once the cognate , mithben, Isa 25:10; Sept. ; Vulg. palea). Both wheat and barley straw were used by the ancient Hebrews chiefly as fodder for their horses, cattle, and camels (Gen 24:25; 1Ki 4:28; Isaiah 11:7; 55:25). The straw was probably often chopped and mixed with barley, beans, etc., for provender (see Harmer, Obs. [Lond. 1797], 1, 423, 424; Wilkinson, Ancient Egypt. [ibid. 1854], 2, 48). There is no intimation that straw was used for litter; Harmer thinks it was not so employed. The litter the people now use in those countries is the animal’s dung, dried in the sun and bruised between their hands which they heap up again in the morning, sprinkling it in the summer with fresh water to keep it from corrupting (Harmer, Obs. p. 424). Straw was employed by the Egyptians for making bricks (Exo 5:7; Exo 5:16); it was chopped up and mixed with the clay to make them more compact and to prevent their cracking (Wilkinson, Ancient Egypt. 2, 194). SEE BRICK.
The ancient Egyptians reaped their corn close to the ear and afterwards cut the straw close to the ground (ibid. p. 48) and laid it by. This was the straw that Pharaoh refused to give to the Israelites, who were therefore compelled to gather stubble (, kash) instead, a matter of considerable difficulty, seeing that the straw itself had been cut off near to the ground. The stubble (q.v.) frequently alluded to in the Scriptures may denote either the short standing straw mentioned above, which was commonly set on fire (hence the allusions in Isa 5:24; Joe 2:5), or the small fragments that would be left behind after the reapings (hence the expression as the kash before the wind [Psa 83:13; Isa 41:2; Jer 13:24]). SEE AGRICULTURE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Straw
Used in brick-making (Ex. 5:7-18). Used figuratively in Job 41:27; Isa. 11:7; 25:10; 65:25.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Straw
teben. The Egyptians reaped grain close to the ear, afterward they cut the straw close to the ground and laid the straw by Pharaoh refused this straw to Israel, who therefore had to gather the short stubble left; translated Exo 5:12, “gather (qash) stubble for the straw,” i.e. to be prepared as straw chopped small; so the old versions and Targum Onkelos.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Straw
This is spoken of as being eaten by the cattle, and it is foretold that it will be the food even of the lion in a future day. This agrees with the practice in the East where the straw is cut up or crushed, and used as food for cattle. 1Ki 4:28; Isa 11:7. It was used in Egypt for mixing with the clay in making bricks: in some of the ancient Egyptian bricks the straw can be seen.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Straw
Used for provender
Gen 24:32; Isa 65:25
Used for brick
Exo 5:7
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Straw
Straw. Both wheat and barley straw were used by the ancient Hebrews, chiefly as fodder for the horses cattle and camels. Gen 24:25; 1Ki 4:28; Isa 11:7; Isa 66:25. There is no intimation that straw was used for litter. It was employed by the Egyptians for making bricks, Exo 5:7; Exo 5:16, being chopped up and mixed with the clay, to make them more compact, and to prevent their cracking. See Brick.
The ancient Egyptians reaped their corn close to the ear, and, afterward, cut the straw close to the ground and laid it by. This was the straw that Pharaoh refused to give to the Israelites, who were, therefore, compelled to gather “stubble” instead — a matter of considerable difficulty, seeing that the straw itself had been cut off near to the ground.