Topic
Barn
11 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Haggai 2:19Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
- Luke 12:18Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
- Job 39:12Easton · Nave General scriptures concerning
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
- Proverbs 3:10ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
- Joel 1:17ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
- Matthew 6:26ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Matthew 13:30ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
- Luke 12:24ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
- Deuteronomy 28:8Easton
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- 2 Kings 6:27Nave General scriptures concerning
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
- Jeremiah 41:8ISBE
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
A storehouse (Deut. 28:8; Job 39:12; Hag. 2:19) for grain, which was usually under ground, although also sometimes above ground (Luke 12:18).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
barn (meghurah, "a granary," "fear," Hag 2:19; acam, "a storehouse," Pr 3:10; mammeghurah, "a repository," Joe 1:17; apotheke, Mt 6:26; 13:30; Lu 12:18,24): A place for the storing of grain, usually a dry cistern in the ground, covered over with a thick layer of earth. "Grain is not stored in the East until it is threshed and winnowed. The apotheke in Roman times was probably a building of some kind. But the immemorial usage of the East has been to conceal the grain, in carefully prepared pits or caves, which, being perfectly dry, will preserve it for years. It thus escaped, as far as possible, the attentions of the tax-gatherer as well as of the robber--not always easily distinguished in the East; compare Jer 41:8" (Temple Dictionary, 215).
Figurative of heaven (Mt 13:30).
See AGRICULTURE; GARNER.
M. O. Evans
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.