What does "Barley" mean in the Bible?

What does the Bible say about Barley?

BAR'LEY. Ex 9:31. A well-known species of grain used for bread, Jud 7:13; John 6:9-13, and also as food for horses and dromedaries. 1 Kgs 4:28. Barley-harvest, Ruth 1:22, usually comes in April — earlier at Jericho, later on the hills. It precedes wheat-harvest about three weeks in Palestine and a month in Egypt. As human food barley was held in low estimation, which adds significance to the connection between Gideon and the barley-cake in the dream which the man told "his fellow." Jud 7:13. "If the Midianites were accustomed in their extemporaneous songs to call Gideon and his band 'eaters of barley bread,' as their successors, the haughty Bedouins, often do to ridicule their enemies, the application would be all the more natural." — Thomson. The same fact adds force to Eze 13:19, and elucidates Hos 3:2 and Num 5:15.

What is the Hebrew word for Barley?

Where does Barley appear in the Bible?

Barley is referenced in 30 verses across 18 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.

• 1 Chronicles 11:13
• 1 Kings 4:28
• 2 Chronicles 2:10
• 2 Chronicles 2:15
• 2 Chronicles 27:5
• 2 Kings 4:42
• 2 Kings 7:16
• 2 Kings 7:18
• 2 Samuel 14:30
• 2 Samuel 21:9
• Deuteronomy 8:8
• Exodus 9:31
• Ezekiel 4:12
• Ezekiel 13:19
• Ezekiel 45:13
• Hosea 3:2
• Isaiah 28:25
• Judges 7:13
• Jeremiah 41:8
• John 6:9
• John 6:13
• Job 31:40
• Joel 1:11
• Leviticus 27:16

What else appears in these passages?

These turn up in the same passages as Barley.