Strong's Concordance krithé: barley Original Word: κριθή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: krithé Phonetic Spelling: (kree-thay') Definition: barley Usage: barley. HELPS Word-studies 2915 krithḗ – barley, the grain eaten by the common person, i.e. "poor man's bread" as opposed to using the more expensive grain (wheat). Barley was used "principally as food for horses" (Zod, Dict). (Rev 6:6) – Unlike annual crops, olives and grapes take years to recover once devastated. The destruction of the oil and wine emphatically then conveys ongoing famine. [A quart of wheat was the usual amount of food a working man ate per day.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definition barley NASB Translation barley (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2915: κριθήκριθή, κριθῆς, ἡ (in Greek writings (from Homer down) only in plural αἱ κριθαί), the Sept. for שְׂעֹרָה, barley: Revelation 6:6 κριθῆς R G, κριθῶν L T Tr WH. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance barley. Of uncertain derivation; barley -- barley. Forms and Transliterations κριθαί κριθάς κριθή κριθήν κριθής κριθων κριθών κριθῶν krithon krithôn krithōn krithō̂nLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |
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