Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8401
תֶּבֶן
tebenteh'-ben
straw
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8401is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8401
properly, material, i.e. (specifically) refuse haum or stalks of grain (as chopped in threshing and used for fodder)
The King James renders it: chaff, straw, stubble.
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
teben is rendered "straw". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:25Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
Genesis 24:25תֶּ֥בֶן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- straw10
- and straw1
- and the straw1
- for the straw1
- like straw1
- the straw1
- to straw1
- to the straw1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תֶּבֶל | tebel | perversion | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- תֶּֽבֶן׃3
- תֶּ֤בֶן2
- תֶּ֔בֶן2
- הַתֶּֽבֶן׃1
- וְהַתֶּ֔בֶן1
- וְתֶ֖בֶן1
- כְּתֶ֥בֶן1
- לְתֶ֣בֶן1
- לַתֶּ֥בֶן1
- לַתֶּֽבֶן׃1
- תֶּ֥בֶן1
- תֶּ֧בֶן1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular10HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
two uses
Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
- תֶּ֥בֶןtevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.
- תֶּ֤בֶןtevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
Exodus
eight uses
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- תֶּ֧בֶןtevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
- תֶּֽבֶן׃tevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
- תֶּֽבֶן׃tevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
- תֶּ֔בֶןtevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- לַתֶּֽבֶן׃latevenpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the straw
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- הַתֶּֽבֶן׃hateventhe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the straw
No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
- תֶּ֗בֶןtevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
- וְתֶ֖בֶןvetevenconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and straw
Judges
one use
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
- תֶּ֤בֶןtevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
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.
- וְהַתֶּ֔בֶןvehatevenconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the straw
Job
two uses
Isaiah
two uses
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
- תֶּֽבֶן׃tevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
- תֶּ֔בֶןtevennoun · masculine singulartagged: straw
Jeremiah
one use
Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.
- לַתֶּ֥בֶןlatevenpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the straw
The letters
Gematria 452· 1,102 mispar gadol
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.