Word

תֶּבֶן

teben · H8401 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

straw

Dried stalks of grain and grasses, usually left over from harvesting grain, used as food for animals or as an ingredient for making clay bricks, and associated with something of little value

Examples
Genesis 24:25 Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to stay overnight.”
Genesis 24:32 So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Exodus 5:7 “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as previously; have them go and gather straw for themselves.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2
הָיָהto be, to become 1

What is done to itIt is the object

8 occurrences in 5 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 3
אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
לָקַחto take, to receive 1
קָשַׁשׁto gather, to gather together 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יֵשׁthere is, there are 1
רַבmany, great 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָהwhat?, why? 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 5
כlike/as 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

ἄχυρον áchyron · G892 · chaff: Greek ἄχυρον renders Hebrew תֶּבֶן across the LXX corpus with high consistency, denoting the same agricultural waste material, or stubble, used in contexts of winnowing, and building material.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Plants001002007001: This noun denotes straw, as in Exodus 5:7's account of Pharaoh's order that the Israelites no longer be given straw to make bricks.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8401. teben תֶּ֫בֶן noun masculineExo 5:16 straw (√ unknown; Ges and others compare בנה…

H8401. teben
תֶּ֫בֶן noun masculineExo 5:16 straw (√ unknown; Ges and others compare בנה (compare Thes1492), but see LagBN 138; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Assyrian tibnu; Aramaic תִּיבְנָא, , whence Arabic as loan-word Frä124); — absolute ׳ת Gen 24:25 +, תֶּ֑בֶן Exo 5:10 +; — straw, i.e. straw threshed fine: chaff Jer 23:28 (opposed to בָּר), blown by wind Job 21:28 (in simile; || מֹץ), yielding Job 41:19 (simile); food for camels Gen 24:25, Gen 24:32 (J), asses Jdg 19:19 (all + מִסְמּוֺא), בָּקָר Isa 11:7; Isa 65:25, horses 1Ki 5:8 (+ שְׂעֹרִים); mixed with clay in brick-making Exo 5:7 (twice in verse); Exo 5:10-11, Exo 5:12 (opposed to קַשׂ), Exo 5:13; Exo 5:16; Exo 5:18 (J); — see further VogelstLandwirthsch. 67.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Plants17 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0