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title: תֶּבֶן — straw · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֶּבֶן (8401), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: straw. BDB 1906: n.m. straw. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֶּבֶן

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«תֶּבֶן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **straw** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 8401 · **BDB:** תֶּ֫בֶן

### Glosses

straw (17)

### Meaning (OSHB)

straw [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8401/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. straw [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8401/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 5:16 straw (√ unknown; Ges al. cp. בנה (cf. Thes 1492), but v. LagBN 138; NH = BH; Assyrian tibnu; Aramaic תִּיבְנָא, ܬܶܒܢܳܐ, whence Arabic تِبْنٌ as loan-wd. Frä124);—abs. ת׳ Gn 24:25 +, תֶּ֑בֶן Ex 5:10 +;—straw, i.e. straw threshed fine: chaff Je 23:28 (opp. בָּר), blown by wind Jb 21:18 (in sim.; ‖ מֹץ), yielding 41:19 (sim.); food for camels Gn 24:25, 32 (J), asses Ju 19:19 (all + מִסְפּוֹא), בָּקָר Is 11:7; 65:25, horses 1 K 5:8 (+ שְׂעֹרִים); mixed with clay in brick-making Ex 5:7(×2), 10, 11, 12 (opp. קַשׁ), v 13, 16, 18 (J);—v. further VogelsteinLandwirthsch. 67.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֶּבֶן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8401/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 41:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.19/)

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יַחְשֹׁ֣ב לְתֶ֣בֶן בַּרְזֶ֑ל לְעֵ֖ץ רִקָּב֣וֹן נְחוּשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* it.considers to straw iron to wood of.rottenness bronze

*JPS 1917:* He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

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[Job 21:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.18/)

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יִהְי֗וּ כְּתֶ֥בֶן לִפְנֵי־ר֑וּחַ וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* are.they? like straw before a.wind and like chaff \[which\].it has.stolen.it a.storm-wind

*JPS 1917:* That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

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