Exodus 9:31
(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.
And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the barley
- The Hebrew {seórah,} barley, in Arabic {shair,} and {shairat,} is so called from its rough, bristly beard, with which the ears are covered and defended; from {saâr,} to stand on end as the hair of the head: hence {seâr,} the hair of the head. So its Latin name {hordeum} is from {horreo,} to stand on end as the hair. Dr. Pococke has observed that there is a double seed time and harvest in Egypt; rice, India wheat, and a grain called the corn of Damascus, are sown and reaped at a very different time from wheat, barley, and flax. The first are sown in March, before the overflowing of the Nile, and reaped about October; whereas the wheat and barley are sown in November and December, as soon as the Nile has gone off, and reaped before May.
- Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:23; Amos 4:9; Habakkuk 3:17