'Straw' in the Bible
She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
Will You frighten a wind-driven leaf?Will You chase after dry straw?
Are they like straw before the wind,like chaff a storm sweeps away?
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
Make them like tumbleweed, my God,like straw before the wind.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes strawand as dry grass shrivels in the flame,so their roots will become like something rottenand their blossoms will blow away like dust,for they have rejectedthe instruction of the Lord of Hosts,and they have despisedthe word of the Holy One of Israel.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.
Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.
Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.
"Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.
Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting strawTo the desert wind.
The Lord continued, "In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.
The prophet who has only a dream should recount the dream, but the one who has My word should speak My word truthfully, for what is straw compared to grain?”—this is the Lord’s declaration.
For they will be consumedlike entangled thorns,like the drink of a drunkardand like straw that is fully dry.
Bunch yourselves together like straw, you undesirable nation,
If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,