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Lexicon :: Strong's H8401 - teḇen

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תֶּבֶן
Transliteration
teḇen
Pronunciation
teh'-ben
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from בָּנָה (H1129)
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TWOT Reference: 2493

Strong’s Definitions

תֶּבֶן teben, teh'-ben; probably from H1129; properly, material, i.e. (specifically) refuse haum or stalks of grain (as chopped in threshing and used for fodder):—chaff, straw, stubble.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H8401 in the following manner: straw (15x), stubble (1x), chaff (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H8401 in the following manner: straw (15x), stubble (1x), chaff (1x).

  1. straw, stubble

    1. as building material

    2. as fodder for livestock

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תֶּבֶן teben, teh'-ben; probably from H1129; properly, material, i.e. (specifically) refuse haum or stalks of grain (as chopped in threshing and used for fodder):—chaff, straw, stubble.
STRONGS H8401: Abbreviations
† תֶּ֫בֶן noun masculineExodus 5:16 straw (√ unknown; Ges and others compare בנה (compare Thes1492), but see LagBN 138; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Assyrian tibnu; Aramaic תִּיבְנָא, bdb106104, whence Arabic bdb106105 as loan-word Frä124); — absolute ת׳ Genesis 24:25 +, תֶּ֑בֶן Exodus 5:10 +; — straw, i.e. straw threshed fine: chaff Jeremiah 23:28 (opposed to בָּר), blown by wind Job 21:28 (in simile; || מֹץ), yielding Job 41:19 (simile); food for camels Genesis 24:25, 32 (J), asses Judges 19:19 (all + מִסְפּוֹא), בָּקָר Isaiah 11:7; Isaiah 65:25, horses 1 Kings 5:8 (+ שְׂעֹרִים); mixed with clay in brick-making Exodus 5:7 (twice in verse); Exodus 5:10, 11, 12 (opposed to קַשׂ), Exodus 5:13; Exodus 5:16; Exodus 5:18 (J); — see further VogelstLandwirthsch. 67.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:25; 24:25; 24:32

Exodus

5:7; 5:10; 5:10; 5:11; 5:12; 5:13; 5:16; 5:16; 5:18

Judges

19:19

1 Kings

5:8

Job

21:28; 41:19

Isaiah

11:7; 65:25

Jeremiah

23:28

H8401

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8401 matches the Hebrew תֶּבֶן (teḇen),
which occurs 17 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32 - So the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:7 - “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:10 - Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:11 - Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:12 - So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:13 - The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:16 - Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18 - Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants—me, the woman and the young man with us. We don’t need anything.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:28 - They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18 - How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:27 - Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:7 - The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,”

says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:28 - Let the prophet who has a dream recount the dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the LORD.
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