שְׂעֹרָהsᵉʻôrâh

barley, bearded grain, common grain

Pronunciation: seh-o-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8184

Meanings

1. growing, standing (Exodus 9:31; Deuteronomy 8:8; Job 31:40)

2. plural, the grains, measured, cooked, etc. (Hosea 3:2; Ezekiel 4:9; Ezekiel 13:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 34 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 9:31 (All the flax and barley were ruined by the hail, because the barley had formed heads and the flax was budding.
  • Leviticus 27:16 “If someone dedicates to the Lord a piece of his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it—fifty shekels of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed.
  • Numbers 5:15 the husband must bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring an offering of two quarts of barley flour to be presented on her behalf. Do not mix it with olive oil or frankincense, for it is a jealousy offering—an offering to prove whether or not she is guilty.
  • Deuteronomy 8:8 It is a land of wheat and barley; of grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates; of olive oil and honey.
  • Judges 7:13 Gideon crept up just as a man was telling his companion about a dream. The man said, “I had this dream, and in my dream a loaf of barley bread came tumbling down into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent, turned it over, and knocked it flat!”
  • Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).