תֶּ֫בֶן
stubble
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8401 appears in the Book of Genesis — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis
- Genesis 24:25 תֶּ֥בֶן n c ms She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
- Genesis 24:32 תֶּ֤בֶן n c ms The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, תבן (teben) means “stubble.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 24:25. It appears 16 verses across 7 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Exodus (44%), then Genesis and Job. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8401 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 56%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Straw 9×, You straw 2×
- American Standard Version: Straw 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Straw 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Straw 16×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8401 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8401 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8401 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8401 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- straw, stubble
- as building material
- as fodder for livestock
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בנה (bânâh) (H1129) — to build.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תָּבַן
- (denom. of תֶּבֶן)
- 1. to mix with straw, knead. Men. 21ᵃ יִתְבּוֹנֶנּוּ; Ar. ed. Koh. תַּבְּנֵיהוּ; Yalk. Lev. 454 יְתַבְּנֵהוּ, v. בִּין.
- 2. to dung with straw. Cant. R. to I, 1 [read:] לא נזבל ולא נְתַבֵּן, v. זָבַל II.
תְּבַן
- , Pa. תַּבֵּן same.
- to be dunged with straw. B. Mets. 103ᵇ בעינא דתִיתַּבֵּן לי ארעאי I want my field manured with stubble (therefore I object to plucking the grain instead of cutting it).
תָּבָן
- (preced.) mixed with straw. Targ. Ez. XIII, 10, sq.
תַּבָּן
- (preced. wds.) carrier of straw for dung. — Pl. תַּבָּנִים. Cant. R. to I, 1, v. זַבָּל.
תֶּבֶן
- straw. Gen. R. s. 83, end הת׳ והקש וכ׳ straw, stubble, and chaff disputed &c.; Cant. R. to VII, 3. Midr. Till. to Ps. II אין אומר לו כמה משפלות של ת׳ וכ׳ he does not ask him, how many basketfuls of straw, or how many bundles of straw dost thou bring into the storehouse? &c. B. Mets. VI, 5. B. Kam. III, 3 המוציא את תַּבְנוֹ וכ׳ if one puts his straw and his stubble out on the public road to form dung; Tosef. ib. II, 7; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H8401 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תֶּֽבֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:7 | 3 |
| תֶּ֔בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:11 | 2 |
| תֶּ֤בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 24:32 | 2 |
| הַ/תֶּֽבֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:13 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/תֶּ֔בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 4:28 | 1 |
| וְ/תֶ֖בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:18 | 1 |
| כְּ/תֶ֥בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 21:18 | 1 |
| לְ/תֶ֣בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 41:27 | 1 |
| לַ/תֶּ֥בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 23:28 | 1 |
| לַ/תֶּֽבֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:12 | 1 |
| תֶּ֗בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:16 | 1 |
| תֶּ֥בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 24:25 | 1 |
| תֶּ֧בֶן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 5:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8401, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אבן ʼeben H68 stone
- בית bayith H1004 house
- בן bên H1121 son
- בנא bᵉnâʼ H1124 to build
- בניה binyâh H1140 building
- בנין binyân H1146 building
- בת bath H1323 daughter
- מבנה mibneh H4011 building
- תבנית tabnîyth H8403 pattern
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בנוי Binnûwy H1131 Binnui
- בני Bânîy H1137 Bani
- בני Bunnîy H1138 Bunni
- בניה Bᵉnâyâh H1141 Benaiah
- יבנאל Yabnᵉʼêl H2995 Jabneel
- יבנה Yabneh H2996 Jabneh
- יבניה Yibnᵉyâh H2997 Ibneiah
- יבניה Yibnîyâh H2998 Ibnijah
- מבני Mᵉbunnay H4012 Mebunnai
- תבני Tibnîy H8402 Tibni
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 22 — not the complete family. 10 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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