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and to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that moves on the ground—to everything in which there is the breath of life—I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so [because He commanded it].

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeColors, GreenCrawlingLiving SoulsGreenMany CreaturesFood DefinedGod Giving FreelyAnimals Having A SoulHerbsTaking Care Of The Earth

for we are destroying this place, because the outcry [for judgment] against them has grown so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy and ruin it.”

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentSodom And GomorrahReprobatesGod Sending ProphetsOutcry


Now may God give you of the dew of heaven [to water your land],
And of the fatness (fertility) of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine;

Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrought, physicaldrinkingdewWineFertile LandPlenty Of WinePlenty Through God

But Isaac replied to Esau, “Listen carefully: I have made Jacob your lord and master; I have given him all his brothers and relatives as servants; and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then, can I do for you, my son?”

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleProviding Wine

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow at your father’s house until Shelah my [youngest] son is grown”; [but he was deceiving her] for he thought that [if Shelah should marry her] he too might die like his brothers did. So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself up [in disguise], and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife [as Judah had promised].

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfGrowing UpClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffSitting In The GatewaydisguisesUsing RoadsDistinctive ClothingGiving In Marriage

Then he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwiceSeven Things

Then behold, seven ears [of grain], thin and dried up by the east wind, sprouted after them.

Verse ConceptseastSeven ThingsOut Of The EastScorchingThin BodiesThe East Wind

Then the thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsThin Bodies

I saw in my [second] dream, seven ears [of grain], plump and good, growing on a single stalk;

Verse ConceptsSeven Things

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the [two] dreams are one [and the same].

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsSeven Things

The seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years; and also the seven thin ears, dried up and scorched by the east wind, they are seven years of famine and hunger.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfSeven AnimalsSeven ThingsOut Of The EastScorchingThin Bodies

Let them gather [as a tax] all [of the fifth of] the food of these good years that are coming, and store up grain under the direction and authority of Pharaoh, and let them guard the food [in fortified granaries] in the cities.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

Thus Joseph gathered and stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting it, for it could not be measured.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberSandImpossible For PeoplePlenty In EgyptSand And Gravel

And [the people of] all countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the [known] earth.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses Of

Now when Jacob (Israel) learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another [in bewilderment and not taking action]?”

Verse ConceptsLooking Intently At PeopleSeeing Situations

He said, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy [some] grain for us, so that we may live and not die [of starvation].”

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsTen People

So the sons of Israel came [to Egypt] to buy grain along with the others who were coming, for famine was in the land of Canaan also.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses Of

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your [place here in] prison; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine in your households,

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

Then Joseph gave orders [privately] that their bags be filled with grain, and that every man’s money [used to pay for the grain] be put back in his sack, and that provisions be given to them for the journey. And so this was done for them.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyPeople Providing Food

They loaded their donkeys with grain and left from there.

Verse ConceptsDonkeysSetting Out

And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, ‘By this [test] I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers here with me and take grain for your starving households and go.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

And it happened that when the families of Jacob’s sons had finished eating [all of] the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.”

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodEnd Of Actions

Take double the [amount of] money with you, and take back the money that was returned in the opening of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.

Verse ConceptsHonestyMistakesDouble MoneyIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Then the men took the present, and they took double the [amount of] money with them, and Benjamin; then they left and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

Verse ConceptsDouble MoneyIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Put my [personal] cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his grain money.” And the steward did as Joseph had told him.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndeterminate Sums Of Money

To his father he sent the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father [to supply all who were with him] on the journey.

Verse ConceptsTen AnimalsMultitudes Of Donkeys

Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan [in payment] for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

Verse ConceptsPalacesFinancesSaving Money


“The blessings of your father
Are greater than the blessings of my ancestors [Abraham and Isaac]
Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;
They shall be on the head of Joseph,
Even on the crown of the head of him who was the distinguished one and the one who is prince among (separate from) his brothers.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHillsPrincesEternal WorldBlessed By God

One day, after Moses had grown [into adulthood], it happened that he went to his countrymen and looked [with compassion] at their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his countrymen.

Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a [living] serpent [like the royal symbol on the crown of Pharaoh]; and Moses ran from it.

Verse ConceptsSnakesMiracles Of Moses And AaronOthers Who FledPutting Things DownThings Changed

but the wheat and spelt (coarse wheat) were not battered and ruined, because they ripen late in the season.)

Verse ConceptsLateness

For they covered the [visible] surface of the land, so that the ground was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained not a green thing on the trees or the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBlackCovering The EarthDarkness During DaytimeGreenRemaining FoodAnimals EatingHarming Trees

“If fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes so that the stacked grain or standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.

Verse ConceptsCornAgriculture, RestrictionsFieldsAgriculture, TermsThornsWeedsArsonBurning Plants

“You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. You shall give (consecrate, dedicate) to Me the firstborn of your sons.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornChild sacrificeTypes Of ChristProcrastinationFirst fruitsTithes And Offering

You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, overlay it inside and out, and you shall make a gold border (frame) around its top.

Verse ConceptsGoldsmithsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a border of gold around the top of it.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

and you shall put the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.

Verse ConceptsHead coveringTurban And Caps

You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around it.

Verse ConceptsAltar Of IncenseOverlaid With GoldGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a molding (border) of gold to go all around [the top of it].

Verse ConceptsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet, “Holy to the Lord.”

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsSealsToolsPlatesengraving

‘If you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the Lord, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.

Verse ConceptsCrushingMeat offerings

The priest shall offer up in smoke its memorial portion, part of the crushed grain and part of its oil with all its incense; it is an offering by fire to the Lord.

He shall examine the mark, and if the mark on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface,

Verse ConceptsGreenRed Parts Of The BodyDepressionmold

nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane (make ceremonially unclean) the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideAnointing PriestsI Am The Lord

You shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or new growth, until this same day when you bring in the offering to your God; it is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you may be.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPerpetual StatutesEating Forbidden Food

You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthRegulations For Cereal Offerings

All the best of the fresh [olive] oil, and all the best of the new wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to the Lord, I give them to you.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholFirst fruits

Your offering shall be credited to you as the grain from the threshing floor or as the full produce from the wine vat.

Verse ConceptsThreshing Floor

Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”

Verse ConceptsFruitFig treeBlamePomegranatesAssembling At The DoorwayBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new grain offering to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksCelebrationsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodConvocationsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Cereal OfferingsFirst fruits

“When you become the father of children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, then if you corrupt yourselves by making a carved or sculpted image in the form of anything [for the purpose of worship], and do evil [things] in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger,

Verse ConceptsProvokingIdols

He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your [olive] oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsFruitfulness, NaturalAlcoholdrinkingBlessings, To AbrahamOilWineWombProsperity PromisedAlcohol ConsumptionIncreasing FruitGod Multipling PeopleChildren BlessedGod Will Bless

that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early [fall] rain and the late [spring] rain, so that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your [olive] oil.

Verse ConceptsBinding cornWater IrrigationOilRainProvisionsGod Sending RainReapingLatenessspringtime

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green [leafy] tree.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenHigh PlacesHillsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWorship At Trees

You are forbidden to eat within your [city] gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand.

Verse ConceptsGrainWineTithes And Offering

the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Verse ConceptsPelicansVultures

You shall eat the tithe (tenth) of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock before the Lord your God in the place where He chooses to establish His Name (Presence), so that you may learn to fear [and worship] the Lord your God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] always.

Verse ConceptsLearningFirstbornChoicesGrainReverence, And ObedienceSacred PlacesThe Fear Of The LordTithes And Offeringfriendliness

“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

Verse ConceptsNumberingSicklesMore Than One Month

You shall also give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine [the first of the season], and your [olive] oil, and the first sheared fleece of your sheep.

Verse ConceptsSheepWoolSheep ShearingFirst fruits

“When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck the ears of grain with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain [to harvest it].

Verse ConceptsCornPoverty, Remedies ForSickles

and it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the offspring of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

Verse ConceptsOilFamine ComingFamine Will Come

You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the Lord your God [on whom you must depend].

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAlcoholNot Drinking WineStrong DrinkThe Lord Is GodAlcoholic Beveragesbeer


With the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
And the favor and goodwill of Him who dwelt in the bush.
Let these blessings come upon the head of Joseph,
And upon the crown of the head of him who was distinguished [as a prince] among his brothers.

Verse ConceptsHeadsPrinces

Of Gad he said,

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;
He lurks like a lioness,
And tears the arm and the crown of the head.

Verse ConceptsEnlargementLike Creatures


“So Israel dwells in safety and security,
The fountain of Jacob alone and secluded,
In a land of grain and new wine;
His heavens also drop down dew.

Verse ConceptsdrinkingGrainWine

On the day after Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened bread, and roasted grain.

Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of Food

Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You have grown old and advanced in years, and very substantial portions of the land remain to be possessed.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftInfirmitiesGradual Conquest Of The Land

A long time after that, when the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies on every side, and Joshua had grown old and advanced in years,

Verse ConceptsTime Of Peace

When he had set the torches ablaze, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned up the heap of sheaves and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and olive groves.

Verse ConceptsFireArsonbranding

would you wait until they were grown? Would you go without marrying? No, my daughters; for it is much more difficult for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has gone against me.”

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGrowing UpPeople WaitingNot MarryingWaiting Till Marriage

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one [of the reapers] in whose sight I may find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

Verse ConceptsGleaning

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here and eat some bread and dip your bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate until she was satisfied and she had some left [for Naomi].

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodGrainMealsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSittingVinegarWineRemaining Food

When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was happy, he went to lie down at the end of the stack of grain. Then Ruth came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.

Verse ConceptsAlcohol ConsumptionLying Down To RestEating And Drinking

He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

Verse ConceptsTithing For People

Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread and run quickly to the camp to your brothers.

Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of FoodGrainWeights And Measures, DryTen ThingsEphah [Ten Omers]

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two jugs of wine, five sheep already prepared [for roasting], five measures of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

Verse ConceptsFoodFig treeGrainRaisinsSheepWeights And Measures, DryFigsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredDried FruitQuantities Of WineHasty ActionOther Volume Measures

So I stood facing him and killed him, because I knew that he could not live after he had fallen. Then I took the crown which was on his head and the band which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”

Verse ConceptsBraceletsHeadsHead coveringOrnamentsKilling Kings

When David was informed, he sent [messengers] to meet them [before they reached Jerusalem], for the men were greatly ashamed and humiliated. And the king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

Verse ConceptsFacial HairHair GrowingWaiting Till Marriage

And he took the crown of their king from his head; it weighed a talent of gold, and [set in it was] a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought the spoil out of the city in great amounts.

Verse ConceptsCrowns, Worn ByGoldJewelsJewelleryWeights Of GoldTalentsweight

Now in all Israel there was no man as handsome as Absalom, so highly praised [for that]; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Verse ConceptsCommendationBlemishHeadsPrejudiceBeauty, In MenPeople Made PerfectTypes Of FeetWomen's BeautyHandsome Men

And the woman [of the house] took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well and scattered grain on it; so nothing was discovered.

Verse ConceptsClothCovering The MouthPeople Hiding PeopleIgnorant Of Facts

brought beds, basins, pottery, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, broad beans, lentils, and [other] roasted grain,

Verse ConceptsFlourBasinsBeansBeds

For they also built for themselves high places [to worship idols] and sacred pillars and Asherim [for the goddess Asherah]. These were on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.

Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

Verse ConceptsReapers

Now [at another time] a man from Baal-shalisha came and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and fresh ears of grain [in the husk] in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give it to the people [affected by the famine] so that they may eat.”

Verse ConceptsBakingTwentyMan Of God

Then Jehoiada brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him and gave him the Testimony [a copy of the Mosaic Law]; and they made him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, “Long live the king!”

Verse ConceptsClappingCrowns, Worn ByHead coveringHeraldHigh Priest, In OtAnointing, Performed OnCoronationsApplauseAnointing KingsMaking Kings

He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsSacrifice, In OtShrinesIncense Offered AmissSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At Trees

They set up for themselves sacred pillars (memorial stones) and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsHillsShrinesStonesObelisksServing AsherahWorship At Trees

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, so that you may live and not die.” Do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads and incites you, saying, “The Lord will rescue us!”

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveBeing MisleadSimilar ItemsDo Not Listen!


‘Therefore their inhabitants were powerless,
They were shattered [in spirit] and put to shame;
They were like plants of the field, the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

When David was told how the men were treated, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were very humiliated and ashamed [to return]. So the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow [back], and then return.”

Verse ConceptsCutting HairTrimming Facial HairHair Growing

David took the crown of their king from his head and found that it weighed a talent of gold and that there was a precious stone in it; so it was set on David’s head. He also brought a very great amount of spoil (plunder) out of the city [of Rabbah].

Verse ConceptsGoldJewelsPrecious StonesJewellery

Then they brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony [a copy of the Mosaic Law] and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, “Long live the king!”

Verse ConceptsHead coveringVoicesCoronations

He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [of pagan worship], on the hills and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsShrines

As soon as the king’s order spread, the Israelites gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, [olive] oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in the tithe of everything abundantly.

Verse ConceptsSeedStoring