seora · barley

What it means

seora (שְׂעֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “barley”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A cereal with bearded ears, from which bread was made; it was harvested before wheat.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Ruth×6
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×2
• Joel×1

• Exodus 9:31

  The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear and the flax in bud.

• Leviticus 27:16

  And if a man consecrates to YHWH part of the field of his possession, the valuation shall be according to its seed: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• Deuteronomy 8:8

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

• Judges 7:13

  Gideon came, and there was a man recounting a dream to his companion. He said, “Look, I dreamed a dream: there was a round loaf of barley tumbling into the camp of Midian; it came to the tent and struck it, and it fell; it turned it upside down, and the tent fell flat.”

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• Ruth 2:17

  So she gleaned in the field until evening, and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

• Ruth 2:23

  So she clung to the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

• Ruth 3:2

  And now, is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you have been? Look, he is winnowing the threshing floor of barley tonight.

• Ruth 3:15

  And he said, “Bring the shawl that is on you and hold it out.” So she held it, and he measured six measures of barley and put it on her; then he went into the city.

• Ruth 3:17

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

• 2 Samuel 14:30

  He said to his servants, “See, Joab’s plot is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So the servants of Absalom set the plot on fire.

• 2 Samuel 17:28

  brought beds, basins, and potter’s vessels, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, and roasted grain,

• 2 Samuel 21:9

  and he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before YHWH. The seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• 1 Kings 4:28

  And the barley and the straw for the horses and for the steeds they brought to the place where it should be, each according to his rule.

• 2 Kings 4:42

  A man came from Baal-shalishah and brought the man of Elohim bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh grain in his sack. He said, “Give it to the people, and let them eat.”

• 2 Kings 7:1

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

• 2 Kings 7:16

  The people went out and plundered the camp of Aram. And a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of YHWH.

• 2 Kings 7:18

  It happened as the man of Elohim had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold about this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria.”

• 1 Chronicles 11:13

  He was with David at Pas-dammim, and the Philistines had gathered there for battle; and there was a plot of the field full of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.

• 2 Chronicles 2:10

  And look, to the woodcutters, to those who cut the trees, to your servants, I give twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:15

  So now, the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine that my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants.

• 2 Chronicles 27:5

  He fought with the king of the sons of Ammon and prevailed against them, and the sons of Ammon gave him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and of barley ten thousand. This the sons of Ammon paid him also in the second year and the third.

• Job 31:40

  instead of wheat let thorns come up, and instead of barley, stinkweed.” The words of Job are ended.

• Isaiah 28:25

  Is it not that, when he has leveled its surface, he scatters black cumin and throws cumin, and puts wheat in rows and barley in its marked place and spelt at its border?

• Jeremiah 41:8

  But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have hidden treasures in the field, wheat and barley and oil and honey.” So he refrained, and did not put them to death among their brothers.

• Ezekiel 4:9

  And you, take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for yourself; for the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you will eat it.

• Ezekiel 4:12

  And as a barley cake you will eat it; and it you will bake on dung of human excrement before their eyes.”

• Ezekiel 13:19

  And you have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death souls that should not die, and to keep alive souls that should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

• Ezekiel 45:13

  This is the contribution that you shall set apart: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.

• Hosea 3:2

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

• Joel 1:11

  Be ashamed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field has perished.

And 2 more times.