Teven תֶּ֫בֶן

Teven (Hebrew תֶּ֫בֶן, Strong's H8401) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “straw”. It occurs 17 times in 16 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Teven, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 24:25
  She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
• Genesis 24:32
  And 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.So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.

Exodus

• Exodus 5:7
  Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
• Exodus 5:10
  And 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.So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
• Exodus 5:11
  Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
• Exodus 5:12
  So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
• Exodus 5:13
  And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
• Exodus 5:16
  There 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.No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
• Exodus 5:18
  Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

Judges

• Judges 19:19
  Yet 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.even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 4:28
  Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

Job

• Job 21:18
  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
• Job 41:27
  He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 11:7
  And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
• Isaiah 65:25
  The 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.The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 23:28
  The 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.Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).