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κᾰλᾰμ-η G2562
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PLANTS_AGRICULTURE Plants Stubble and Chaff
AR["قَشّاً"]·ben["খড়কুটো,"]·DE["Stoppel"]·EN["straw"]·FR["chaume"]·heb["קַשׁ"]·HI["पराली"]·ID["jerami"]·IT["stoppia"]·jav["jerami,"]·KO["짚"]·PT["palha"]·RU["солому"]·ES["paja"]·SW["mabua,"]·urd["پرالی"]

Senses

BDB / Lexicon Reference
κᾰλᾰμ-η, , (see. κάλαμος) stalk, especially the stalk or straw of corn, metaphorically in Refs 8th c.BC+, i.e. when there is much straw and little harvest, much slaughter and little profit, Refs 8th c.BC+; κ. πυρῶν wheat-straw, Refs 5th c.BC+; proverbial of a greedy farmer, πυροὺς ἐπὶ καλάμῃ ἀροῦν to exhaust ground by one corn-crop after another, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 stubble, NT+4th c.BC+ thou