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Straw
STRAW (מַתְבֵּן, H5495, תֶּ֫בֶן, H9320). Teben is mentioned fifteen times, but only once (
There would be more barley straw available in Pal. than wheat straw, for barley was used for feeding horses, donkeys and cattle, and most of the poor people ate barley bread.
There was also undoubtedly spelt straw available. It is uncertain, however, whether the straw mentioned in
Was hay the straw and provender which was given in
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
stro, stub’-’-l: The cognates of Hebrew tebhen, "straw" and qash, "stubble," have been retained in the modern Arabic terms tibn and qashsh. Tibn applies to the straw which has been cut up into short pieces and more or less split by the threshing operations. It is commonly used throughout the East as a coarse fodder or roughage for domestic herbivorous animals (compare
Tibn is mixed with clay for plastering walls or for making sun-dried bricks. It is also mixed with lime and sand for plastering. The children of Israel had their task of brickmaking made more arduous by being required to gather stubble and prepare it by chopping it up instead of being given the already prepared straw of the threshing-floors (
Qashsh (literally, "dried up") refers to the stalks left standing in the wheat fields or to any dried-up stalks or stems such as are gathered for burning. Camels and other flocks sometimes supplement their regular meals by grazing on the stubble, otherwise it has no use. In the Bible stubble is used to typify worthless inflammable material (
mathben, is translated "straw" in
James A. Patch