Strong’s H8401 · Hebrew
תֶּבֶן
teben · teh'-ben
Origin probably from בָּנָה (H1129);
Meaning properly, material, i.e. (specifically) refuse haum or stalks of grain (as chopped in threshing and used for fodder)
In the King James Version chaff, straw, stubble.
In 16 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 24:25She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
- Genesis 24:32And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
- Exodus 5:7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
- Exodus 5:11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- Exodus 5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
- Exodus 5:13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- Exodus 5:16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
- Exodus 5:18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
- Judges 19:19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
- 1 Kings 4:28Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
- Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Job 41:27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
- Isaiah 11:7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
- Isaiah 65:25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 23:28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.