teven · straw

What it means

teven (תֶּבֶן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “straw”.

Chopped stalks of grain, used as fodder for animals and in making bricks.

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. Dry grain stalks, for animals or bricks.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×8
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 24:25

  She also said to him, “We have both straw and fodder in plenty, and also room to spend the night.”

• Genesis 24:32

  The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels and gave straw and fodder to the camels and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

• Exodus 5:7

  “You shall no longer give straw to the people to make bricks as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

• Exodus 5:10

  So the taskmasters of the people and their supervisors went out and said to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.

• Exodus 5:11

  You go and get yourselves straw wherever you can find it, for not a thing will be reduced from your work.’”

• Exodus 5:12

  So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

• Exodus 5:13

  The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Complete your work, each day’s task on its day, just as when there was straw.”

• Exodus 5:16

  No straw is given to your servants, yet bricks! they keep saying to us, ‘Make them!’ And look, your servants are beaten; but the sin is your people’s.”

• Exodus 5:18

  So now go and work; and straw will not be given to you, yet the quota of bricks you shall deliver.”

• Judges 19:19

  And there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also there is bread and wine for me and for your maidservant and for the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of any thing.”

• 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.

• Job 21:18

  Are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the whirlwind steals away?

• Job 41:27

  It counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

• Isaiah 11:7

  And the cow and the bear will graze; their young will lie down together; and the lion, like the ox, will eat straw.

• Isaiah 65:25

  The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion like the ox will eat straw; and the serpent, dust will be its bread; they will not do evil or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 23:28

  The prophet who has a dream, let him tell the dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What has the straw to do with the grain? declares YHWH.

And 1 more times.