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# תֶּבֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8401

**straw** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

straw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8401/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֶּ֫בֶן: n.m. straw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8401/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 5:16 straw (√ unknown; Ges al. cp. בנה (cf. Thes 1492), but v. LagBN 138; NH = BH; Assyrian tibnu; Aramaic תִּיבְנָא, ܬܶܒܢܳܐ, whence Arabic تِبْنٌ as loan-wd. Frä124);—abs. ת׳ Gn 24:25 +, תֶּ֑בֶן Ex 5:10 +;—straw, i.e. straw threshed fine: chaff Je 23:28 (opp. בָּר), blown by wind Jb 21:18 (in sim.; ‖ מֹץ), yielding 41:19 (sim.); food for camels Gn 24:25, 32 (J), asses Ju 19:19 (all + מִסְפּוֹא), בָּקָר Is 11:7; 65:25, horses 1 K 5:8 (+ שְׂעֹרִים); mixed with clay in brick-making Ex 5:7(×2), 10, 11, 12 (opp. קַשׁ), v 13, 16, 18 (J);—v. further VogelsteinLandwirthsch. 67.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: straw (17).

## In the verses

[Job 41:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.19/#tree)

יַחְשֹׁ֣ב לְתֶ֣בֶן בַּרְזֶ֑ל לְעֵ֖ץ רִקָּב֣וֹן נְחוּשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* it.considers to straw iron to wood of.rottenness bronze

*JPS 1917:* He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

[Job 21:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.18/#tree)

יִהְי֗וּ כְּתֶ֥בֶן לִפְנֵי־ר֑וּחַ וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* are.they? like straw before a.wind and like chaff \[which\].it has.stolen.it a.storm-wind

*JPS 1917:* That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8401.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8401/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).