שְׂעֹרָה
se.o.rah
“barley”
Definition
barley (as villose)
or שְׂעוֹרָה (feminine meaning the plant); and (masculine meaning the grain); also שְׂעֹר; or שְׂעוֹר; from H8175 (שָׂעַר) in the sense of roughness;
- barley 1a) barley (of the plant) 1b) barley (of the meal or grain)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
שְׂעֹרָה appears 29 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At the place with a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.
It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
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