Word Study · Strong's H8184 · Hebrew
שְׂעֹרָה
seorah
seh-o-raw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: sᵉʻôrâh
“barley (as villose)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
barley (as villose)
Rendered in the KJV as
barley.
- 34occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 17 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 24inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 34 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 24
- שְׂעֹרִֽים׃4
- שְׂעֹרִ֔ים3
- הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖ים2
- וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים2
- שְׂעֹרִים֙2
- שְׂעֹרִ֛ים2
- שְׂעֹרִ֖ים2
- הַשְּׂעֹרָה֙1
- הַשְּׂעֹרִ֥ים1
- הַשְּׂעֹרִֽים׃1
- וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖ה1
- וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֣ים1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 9
- barleys17
- and barleys5
- the barleys4
- and barley2
- and the barleys2
- [the] barley1
- and the barley1
- barley1
- the barley1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 8
- noun · masculine plural17
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural5
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural4
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2
- noun · feminine singular2
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmpa · 17
- HC/Ncmpa · 5
- HTd/Ncmpa · 4
- HC/Ncfsa · 2
- HC/Td/Ncmpa · 2
- HNcfsa · 2
- HC/Td/Ncfsa · 1
- HTd/Ncfsa · 1
All 34, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Ruth6 of 34 · 18%
- 2 Kings4 of 34 · 12%
- Ezekiel4 of 34 · 12%
- 2 Samuel3 of 34 · 9%
- 2 Chronicles3 of 34 · 9%
Ruth carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Exodus2 occurrences
- Exodus 9:31וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖הvehaseorahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;here: and the barley
- Exodus 9:31הַשְּׂעֹרָה֙haseorahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;here: the barley
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
Ruth6 occurrences
- Ruth 1:22שְׂעֹרִֽים׃seorimnoun · masculine pluralSo Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.here: barleys
- Ruth 2:17שְׂעֹרִֽים׃seorimnoun · masculine pluralSo Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.here: barleys
- Ruth 2:23הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖יםhaseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluralSo Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.here: the barleys
- Ruth 3:2הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖יםhaseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluralNow is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.here: the barleys
- Ruth 3:15שְׂעֹרִים֙seorimnoun · masculine pluralAnd he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl. Then he went into the city.here: barleys
- Ruth 3:17הַשְּׂעֹרִ֥יםhaseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluralAnd she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”here: the barleys
2 Samuel3 occurrences
- 2 Samuel 14:30שְׂעֹרִ֔יםseorimnoun · masculine pluralThen Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.here: barleys
- 2 Samuel 17:28וּשְׂעֹרִ֖יםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluralThey brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,here: and barleys
- 2 Samuel 21:9שְׂעֹרִֽים׃seorimnoun · masculine pluralAnd he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.here: barleys
2 Kings4 occurrences
- 2 Kings 4:42שְׂעֹרִ֔יםseorimnoun · masculine pluralNow a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.here: barleys
- 2 Kings 7:1שְׂעֹרִ֛יםseorimnoun · masculine pluralThen Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”here: barleys
- 2 Kings 7:16שְׂעֹרִ֛יםseorimnoun · masculine pluralThen the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.here: barleys
- 2 Kings 7:18שְׂעֹרִ֜יםseorimnoun · masculine pluralIt 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.”here: barleys
2 Chronicles3 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 2:10וּשְׂעֹרִ֕יםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluralI will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”here: and barleys
- 2 Chronicles 2:15וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֜יםvehaseorimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluralNow let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.here: and the barleys
- 2 Chronicles 27:5וּשְׂעוֹרִ֖יםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluralJotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.here: and barleys
Ezekiel4 occurrences
- Ezekiel 4:9וּ֠שְׂעֹרִיםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluralBut take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.here: and barleys
- Ezekiel 4:12שְׂעֹרִ֖יםseorimnoun · masculine pluralAnd you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”here: barleys
- Ezekiel 13:19שְׂעֹרִים֮seorimnoun · masculine pluralYou have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.here: barleys
- Ezekiel 45:13הַשְּׂעֹרִֽים׃haseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluralThis is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.here: the barleys