|Easton's Bible Dictionary| Used in brick-making (Exodus
5:7-18). Used figuratively in Job 41:27; Isaiah 11:7; 25:10;
65:25. Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To spread or
scatter. See Strow. 2. (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species
of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley,
more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and peas. 3. (n.) The gathered
and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a
bundle, or a load, of rye straw. 4. (n.) Anything proverbially
worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle. Int.
Standard Bible Encyclopedia stro, stub'-'-l: The cognates of
Hebrew tebhen, "straw" and qash, "stubble," have been retained
in the modern Arabic terms tibn and qashsh. Tibn applies to the
straw which has been cut up into short pieces and more or less
split by the threshing operations. It is commonly used
throughout the East as a coarse fodder or roughage for domestic
herbivorous animals (compare Genesis 24:25, 32 Judges 19:19 1
Kings 4:28; Isaiah 11:7; Isaiah 65:25). Hay an