שְׂעֹרָה
sᵉʻôrâh · seh-o-raw'
barley (as villose)
Lexicon
Derivation: or שְׂעוֹרָה (feminine meaning the plant); and (masculine meaning the grain); also שְׂעֹר; or שְׂעוֹר; from H8175 (שָׂעַר) in the sense of roughness;
barley (as villose)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: barley.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to see and know › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy that works to see and know of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שְׂעֹרָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
34 occurrences · 34 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of barley18 · 53%
- and barley3 · 9%
- barley3 · 9%
- and the barley2 · 6%
- measures of barley2 · 6%
- for the barley1 · 3%
- and he hath barley1 · 3%
- instead of barley1 · 3%
- and of barley1 · 3%
- it as barley1 · 3%
- and for the barley1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.