1. barley — Noun שְׂעֹרָה (se'orah): the cereal grain barley, one of the seven species of the Land of Israel, used for food, animal feed, and offerings. S143136 covers standalone and articular forms ('barley', 'the barley'), while S143137 covers conjunctive occurrences ('and barley'), often paired with wheat in lists. All translations converge: eng 'barley/and-barley', spa 'cebada/y-cebada', hin जौ/और-जौ, arb شَعير/وَشَعِيرًا, kor 보리/그리고-보리, swa shayiri/na-shayiri. The split is purely syntactic (presence of conjunction waw), not semantic. 34×
AR["الشَّعِيرِ","شَعيرٌ","شَعيرٍ","شَعِير","شَعِيرًا","شَعِيرٍ","وَ-الشَّعِيرَ","وَ-شَعيرًا","وَ-شَعِيرًا","وَ-شَعِيرٌ","وَشَعِيرٍ"]·ben["আর-যব","এবং-যব","ও-যব","যব","যবের"]·DE["Tore","Torhueter","[ושעורים]","[ושערה]","[שעורים]","barley","und-Tore","und-Torhueter","und-barley","von-barley"]·EN["and-barley","barley","of-barley"]·FR["[ושעורים]","[ושערה]","[שעורים]","barley","de-barley","et-barley","et-orge","et-portes","orge","portes"]·heb["ו-שעורה","ו-שעורים","ו-שערים","שעורים"]·HI["और-जौ","जौ","जौ-की","जौ-के","सओरीम"]·ID["-jelai","dan-jelai","jelai"]·IT["[ושעורים]","[ושערה]","[שעורים]","di-orzo","e-barley","e-orzo","e-porte","orzo","porte"]·jav["gandum","gandum-jali","jali","jawawut","lan-jawawut","lan-jewawut","sèkul"]·KO["그리고-보리","그리고-보리들","그리고-보리를","그리고-보리와","그리고-보리의","보리","보리-의","보리가","보리를-위하여","보리의"]·PT["cevada","cevadas","e-cevada"]·RU["и-ячмень","и-ячменя","ячменного","ячменную","ячменных","ячмень","ячменя"]·ES["cebada","cebadas","y-cebada","y-de-cebada"]·SW["na-shayiri","shayiri","wa-shayiri"]·TR["arpa","arpaların","arpanın","avuçları","ve-arpa","ve-arpanın","ve-arpayi","yuvarlanıyor"]·urd["اور-جو","اور-جَو","جو","جو-کی","جو-کے","جَو","جَو-کی","و-جو"]
Senses
Related Senses
H3754 1. vineyard, cultivated grape plot (92×)H0730 1. cedar tree or wood (73×)H1612 1. vine, grapevine (55×)H3293a 1. forest, wood, thicket (55×)H5560 1. fine flour (53×)H5193 1. plant vegetation (48×)H2232 1. sow seed, plant crops (41×)H1715 1. grain, cereal crop (40×)H7114b 1. reap, harvest grain (36×)H2132 1. olive tree (34×)H2406 1. wheat (grain crop) (30×)H7070 1. reed, cane (plant) (30×)H7848 1. acacia (28×)H8328 1. root of a plant (28×)H8384 1. fig tree (25×)H5488 1. reeds, rushes (in 'Sea of Reeds') (24×)G0290 1. a vineyard (23×)G2325 1. reap, harvest a crop (21×)G4687 1. sow seed, plant (21×)G0837 1. grow, increase (intransitive) (20×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שְׂעֹרָה n.f. barley (bearded grain; 𝔊 κριθή, 𝔙 hordeum; NH id.; Sab. שערם Glass in FellZMG liv (1900), 256, Arabic شَعِيرٌ; Old Aramaic שערה, 𝔗 סְעָרְתָא; Syriac ܣܥܳܪܬܳܐ; Di260 cp. Ethiopic ሥርናይ wheat, grain);—abs. שׂ׳ Ex 9:31 +; usually pl. שְׂעֹרִים Ho 3:2 +;—barley, common grain (often ‖ חִטָּה, etc.): 1. growing, standing, sg. Ex 9:31(×2) (J), Dt 8:8 Jb 31:40 Jo 1:11, as sown Is 28:25;…