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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8184

שְׂעֹרָה

seorahseh-o-raw'

barley

34 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: sᵉʻôrâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8184is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 17 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8184

barley (as villose)

The King James renders it: barley.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

seorah is rendered "barley". It stands 34 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Ruth, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 9:31(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;

Exodus 9:31וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in seventeen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 22 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • barleys17
  • and barleys5
  • the barleys4
  • and barley2
  • and the barleys2
  • barley2
  • and the barley1
  • the barley1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שְׂעַרsearhairUses3
שְׂעָרָהsearahstormUses2
שְׂעִירָהseirahfemale goatUses2

The words it stands beside

All 34, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • שְׂעֹרִֽים׃4
  • שְׂעֹרִ֔ים3
  • הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖ים2
  • וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים2
  • שְׂעֹרִים֙2
  • שְׂעֹרִ֛ים2
  • שְׂעֹרִ֖ים2
  • הַשְּׂעֹרָה֙1
  • הַשְּׂעֹרִ֥ים1
  • הַשְּׂעֹרִֽים׃1
  • וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖ה1
  • וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֣ים1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural17HNcmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural5HC/Ncmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural4HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2HC/Td/Ncmpa
  • noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ncfsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa

Exodus

two uses
  • (Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;

    Exodus 9:31

    • וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖הvehaseorahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the barley
    • הַשְּׂעֹרָה֙haseorahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the barley

Leviticus

one use
  • If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

    Leviticus 27:16

    • שְׂעֹרִ֔יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys

Numbers

one use
  • then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

    Numbers 5:15

    • שְׂעֹרִ֑יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys

Deuteronomy

one use
  • a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

    Deuteronomy 8:8

    • וּשְׂעֹרָ֔הuseorahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and barley

Judges

one use
  • And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

    Judges 7:13

    • שְׂעֹרִים֙seorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys

Ruth

six uses
  • So 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.

    Ruth 1:22

    • שְׂעֹרִֽים׃seorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

    Ruth 2:17

    • שְׂעֹרִֽים׃seorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • So 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.

    Ruth 2:23

    • הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖יםhaseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the barleys
  • Now 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.

    Ruth 3:2

    • הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖יםhaseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the barleys
  • And 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.

    Ruth 3:15

    • שְׂעֹרִים֙seorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

    Ruth 3:17

    • הַשְּׂעֹרִ֥יםhaseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the barleys

2 Samuel

three uses
  • Then 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.

    2 Samuel 14:30

    • שְׂעֹרִ֔יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

    2 Samuel 17:28

    • וּשְׂעֹרִ֖יםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and barleys
  • And 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.

    2 Samuel 21:9

    • שְׂעֹרִֽים׃seorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys

1 Kings

one use
  • Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

    1 Kings 4:28

    • וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֣יםvehaseorimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the barleys

2 Kings

four uses
  • Now 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.

    2 Kings 4:42

    • שְׂעֹרִ֔יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • Then 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.’”

    2 Kings 7:1

    • שְׂעֹרִ֛יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • Then 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.

    2 Kings 7:16

    • שְׂעֹרִ֛יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • 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.”

    2 Kings 7:18

    • שְׂעֹרִ֜יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys

1 Chronicles

one use
  • 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.

    1 Chronicles 11:13

    • שְׂעוֹרִ֑יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys

2 Chronicles

three uses
  • I 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.”

    2 Chronicles 2:10

    • וּשְׂעֹרִ֕יםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and barleys
  • Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.

    2 Chronicles 2:15

    • וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֜יםvehaseorimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the barleys
  • Jotham 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.

    2 Chronicles 27:5

    • וּשְׂעוֹרִ֖יםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and barleys

Job

one use
  • then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

    Job 31:40

    • שְׂעֹרָ֥הseorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: barley

Isaiah

one use
  • When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

    Isaiah 28:25

    • וּשְׂעֹרָ֣הuseorahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and barley

Jeremiah

one use
  • But ten of the men among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he refrained from killing them with the others.

    Jeremiah 41:8

    • וּשְׂעֹרִ֖יםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and barleys

Ezekiel

four uses
  • But 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.

    Ezekiel 4:9

    • וּ֠שְׂעֹרִיםuseorimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and barleys
  • And 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.”

    Ezekiel 4:12

    • שְׂעֹרִ֖יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • You 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.

    Ezekiel 13:19

    • שְׂעֹרִים֮seorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
  • This 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.

    Ezekiel 45:13

    • הַשְּׂעֹרִֽים׃haseorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the barleys

Hosea

two uses
  • So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

    Hosea 3:2

    • שְׂעֹרִ֖יםseorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys
    • שְׂעֹרִֽים׃seorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: barleys

Joel

one use
  • Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

    Joel 1:11

    • שְׂעֹרָ֑הseorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: barley

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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