STRONGS NUMBER H8401


Word Summary
teben: straw
Original Word: תֶּבֶן
Transliteration: teben
Phonetic Spelling: (teh'-ben)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: straw
Meaning: material, refuse haum, stalks of grain
Strong's Concordance
blemish

From balal in the original sense of flowing: a cataract (in the eye) -- blemish.

see HEBREW balal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8401. teben

תֶּ֫בֶןnoun masculineExodus 5:16 straw (√ unknown; Ges and others compare בנה‎ (compare Thes1492), but see LagBN 138; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Assyrian tibnu; Aramaic תִּיבְנָא‎, , whence Arabic as loan-word Frä124); — absolute ׳תGenesis 24:25 +, תֶּ֑בֶןExodus 5:10 +; — straw, i.e. straw threshed fine: chaff Jeremiah 23:28 (opposed to בָּר‎), blown by wind Job 21:28 (in simile; "" מֹץ‎), yielding 41:19 (simile); food for camels Genesis 24:25, 32 (J), asses Judges 19:19 (all + מִסְמּוֺא‎), בָּקָרIsaiah 11:7; 65:25, horses 1 Kings 5:8 (+ שְׂעֹרִים‎); mixed with clay in brick-making Exodus 5:7 (twice in verse); 5:10-11, 12 (opposed to קַשׂ‎), 5:13; 5:16; 5:18 (J); — see further VogelstLandwirthsch. 67.