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# barley

noun (barley, uncountable)

«barley» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A cereal plant like wheat, whose grain is used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and geography: barley is a crop grown on farms; in history, one of the first crops people grew. In food: barley soup, barley water (UK drink). Phrases: a field of barley, barley water, pearl barley.

### Examples

- The farmer grows barley in that field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x1)
- Barley soup is warm and filling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x2)
- Barley is used to make malt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x3)
- Barley was one of the first crops people farmed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x4)
- Lemon barley water is a British drink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x5)
- The wind made the barley wave. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x6)
- They were flying about when three grains of barley fell on the floor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable. Other cereals: wheat, oats, rye, rice, maize. "Barley sugar" is a kind of boiled sweet.

## In Jewish tradition

A grain that was one of the main crops of the land of Israel. It is listed among the good things of the land.

**Interpretation.** Barley ripens first in spring, and the Omer offering of new barley is brought at Passover. The seven species of the land of Israel include barley.

### Examples

- a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x1)
- And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. (Torah EXO.9.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x2)
- Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor. (Writings RUT.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x3)
- Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x4)
- So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; (Prophets HOS.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x5)

### Note

Uncountable. Other cereals: wheat, oats, rye, rice, maize. "Barley sugar" is a kind of boiled sweet.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «barley» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barley/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «barley» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«barley» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/barley.html) on Mova free.