שְׂעֹרָה

Exodus 9:31 וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖ה הַשְּׂעֹרָה֙ and the barley, the barley

(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;

Leviticus 27:16 שְׂעֹרִ֔ים barley<s>

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

Here: Barley was the cheap, common grain, cheaper than wheat. Using it as the standard gave everyone one baseline for land of any quality.

Numbers 5:15 שְׂעֹרִ֑ים barley<s>

then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

Deuteronomy 8:8 וּשְׂעֹרָ֔ה and barley

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

Judges 7:13 שְׂעֹרִים֙ barley<s>

And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

Ruth 1:22 שְׂעֹרִֽים׃ barley<s>

So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ruth 2:17 שְׂעֹרִֽים׃ barley<s>

So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

Ruth 2:23 הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖ים the barley<s>

So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Ruth 3:2 הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖ים the barley<s>

Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

Ruth 3:15 שְׂעֹרִים֙ barley<s>

And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured in six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the city.

Ruth 3:17 הַשְּׂעֹרִ֥ים the barley<s>

And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

2 Samuel 14:30 שְׂעֹרִ֔ים barley<s>

Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

2 Samuel 17:28 וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים and barley<s>

They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

2 Samuel 21:9 שְׂעֹרִֽים׃ barley<s>

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

1 Kings 4:28 וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֣ים and the barley<s>

Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

2 Kings 4:42 שְׂעֹרִ֔ים barley<s>

Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

Here: Barley ripens before wheat, so it was the very first harvest of spring. It was also cheaper and coarser than wheat, the bread of ordinary and poor people.

2 Kings 7:1 שְׂעֹרִ֛ים barley<s>

Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”

Here: The plural is used for barley as grain. Barley was the cheaper staple, the bread of ordinary people and the poor, and it usually cost about half as much as wheat. The prophecy names everyday prices for both the best food and the common food.

2 Kings 7:16 שְׂעֹרִ֛ים barley<s>

Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

2 Kings 7:18 שְׂעֹרִ֜ים barley<s>

It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”

1 Chronicles 11:13 שְׂעוֹרִ֑ים barley<s>

He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At a place with a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.

2 Chronicles 2:10 וּשְׂעֹרִ֕ים and barley<s>

I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”

Here: 'And barley': the cheaper, hardier grain. It was the everyday bread of laborers and the poor, and also animal fodder.

2 Chronicles 2:15 וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֜ים and the barley<s>

Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.

2 Chronicles 27:5 וּשְׂעוֹרִ֖ים and barley<s>

Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.

Job 31:40 שְׂעֹרָ֥ה barley

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

Isaiah 28:25 וּשְׂעֹרָ֣ה and barley

When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

Jeremiah 41:8 וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים and barley<s>

But ten of the men among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he refrained from killing them with the others.

Here: Barley, the cheaper and hardier grain. It was the bread of poorer people and was also used as animal feed.

Ezekiel 4:9 וּ֠שְׂעֹרִים and barley<s>

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:12 שְׂעֹרִ֖ים barley<s>

And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

Ezekiel 13:19 שְׂעֹרִים֮ barley<s>

You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.

Here: 'Barley.' This was the cheap grain, the bread of the poor, worth about half the price of wheat (2 Kgs 7:1). That deepens the contempt: God is sold for the cheapest food there is.

Ezekiel 45:13 הַשְּׂעֹרִֽים׃ the barley<s>

This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

Hosea 3:2 שְׂעֹרִ֖ים שְׂעֹרִֽים׃ barley<s>

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

Joel 1:11 שְׂעֹרָ֑ה [the] barley

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.