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is the rendering in the A.V. of two Heb. and one Gr. word:
1. Usually ÷ִùׁ , kash (which is invariably so rendered), so called from its dryness, which denotes the dry halm of grain, partly as left standing in the fields (Exo_5:12), and then sometimes burned over (Exo_15:7; Isa_5:24; Isa_47:14; Joe_2:5; Nah_1:10; Oba_1:18), and partly as broken up into chaff by treading out the grain, and so separated by ventilation (Job_13:25; Job 42:20 [28]; Psalm 83:24; Isa_40:24; Isa_41:2; Jer_13:24). SEE CHAFF.
2. Once úֶּáֶï , teben (Job_21:18), properly straw, as used for provender. SEE STRAW.
3. Once êáëáìή (1Co_3:12), which denotes in general the stalk of grain after the ears are removed (Xenoph. 1Co_3:5; 1Co_3:18; Sept. for ÷ִùׁ , Exo_15:7; Joe_2:5). In Egypt the reapers only cut off the ears of the corn with the sickle, leaving the straw, which they deemed worthless, to rot on the ground. Hence when the cruel Pharaoh commanded the Hebrew brick makers to gather straw for themselves (Exo_5:12), though guilty of excessive tyranny, he did not, as some have supposed, ordain a physical impossibility. SEE BRICK.