Topic
Straw; Stubble
15 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Genesis 24:25ISBE
She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
- Genesis 24:32ISBE
¶ And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
- Exodus 5:7ISBE
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 15:7ISBE
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
- Judges 19:19ISBE
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
- 1 Kings 4:28ISBE
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
- Job 13:25ISBE
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 41:28ISBE
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
- Job 41:29ISBE
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
- Psalms 83:13ISBE
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
- Isaiah 5:24ISBE
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of…
- Isaiah 11:7ISBE
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
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- Isaiah 25:10 ISBE
- Isaiah 65:25 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 3:12 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 16 references
stro, stub'-'-l: The cognates of Hebrew tebhen, "straw" and qash, "stubble," have been retained in the modern Arabic terms tibn and qashsh. Tibn applies to the straw which has been cut up into short pieces and more or less split by the threshing operations. It is commonly used throughout the East as a coarse fodder or roughage for domestic herbivorous animals (compare Ge 24:25,32; Jud 19:19; 1Ki 4:28; Isa 11:7; 65:25). Hay and similar cured crops are practically unknown. Barley, peas and other grain, when fed to animals, are mixed with the tibn. The animals will frequently reject the tibn unless there is grain in it. They often nose about the tibn until the grain settles to the bottom so that they can eat the latter without the straw. Straw left in the manger is thrown out in the stall to form part of the bedding (compare Isa 25:10).
Tibn is mixed with clay for plastering walls or for making sun-dried bricks. It is also mixed with lime and sand for plastering. The children of Israel had their task of brickmaking made more arduous by being required to gather stubble and prepare it by chopping it up instead of being given the already prepared straw of the threshing-floors (Ex 5:7).
Qashsh (literally, "dried up") refers to the stalks left standing in the wheat fields or to any dried-up stalks or stems such as are gathered for burning. Camels and other flocks sometimes supplement their regular meals by grazing on the stubble, otherwise it has no use. In the Bible stubble is used to typify worthless inflammable material (Ex 15:7; Job 13:25; 41:28,29; Ps 83:13; Isa 5:24, etc.; 1Co 3:12, kalame).
mathben, is translated "straw" in Isa 25:10.
James A. Patch
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.