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# barley

«barley» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (barley, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

A cereal plant like wheat, whose grain is used for food, for animal feed and for making beer and malt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A grain that was one of the main crops of the land of Israel. It is listed among the good things of the land. Interpretation: Barley ripens first in spring, and the Omer offering of new barley is brought at Passover. The seven species of the land of Israel include barley. In the primary lessons: In science and geography: barley is a crop grown on farms; in history, one of the first crops people grew. In food: barley soup, barley water (UK drink). Phrases: a field of barley, barley water, pearl barley.

### examples

- a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x1)
- And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. (Torah EXO.9.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x2)
- Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor. (Writings RUT.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x3)
- Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x4)
- So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; (Prophets HOS.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x5)
- The farmer grows barley in that field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x6)
- Barley soup is warm and filling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x7)
- Barley is used to make malt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x8)
- Barley was one of the first crops people farmed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x9)
- Lemon barley water is a British drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x10)
- The wind made the barley wave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x11)
- They were flying about when three grains of barley fell on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/#x12)

### note

Uncountable. Other cereals: wheat, oats, rye, rice, maize. "Barley sugar" is a kind of boiled sweet.

### In the corpora

- [And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.266/)
- [a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.254/)
- [So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.36/)
- [Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.821/)
- [Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.52/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barley» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barley/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.