'Straw' in the Bible

And yes," she continued, "we have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place to spend the night."

So the servant went to the house and unbridled the camels. They provided straw and feed for the camels and water for washing his feet and those of the men with him.

"You're no longer to give the people straw for making bricks, as in the past. They must gather straw for themselves.

Then the taskmasters of the people and their officials went out and told the people, "This is Pharaoh's response: "I'll no longer give you any straw.

Go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work quotas won't be reduced at all.'"

So the people scattered throughout the entire land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

The taskmasters pressured them by saying, "Finish your work each day's quota just as when you were given straw."

No straw is being given to us, yet they're saying to us, "Make bricks!' Look, we are being beaten. It's wrong how you are treating your people!"

Now, go! Get to work! And straw won't be given to you, but you are to deliver the same number of bricks!"

Meanwhile, we also have straw and fodder for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me, for this young woman servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. We don't need anything else."

They also provided barley and straw for the horses and camels to their respective locations, each consistent with their responsibilities.

Are you a god who would make a leaf tremble or who would prosecute a dry straw?

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.

God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

Therefore, as flames of fire devour straw, as dry grass collapses in flames, so their root will be rotten, and their blossom will blow away like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

The cow and the bear will graze, and their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

For the LORD's power will rest on this mountain, but the Moabites will be trodden down beneath him, just as straw is trodden down in the slime of a manure pit.

"The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; but as for the serpent its food will be dust! They won't harm or destroy on my entire holy mountain," says the LORD.

Let the prophet who has a dream relate the dream, but let whoever receives my message speak my message truthfully. What does straw have in common with wheat?" declares the LORD.

Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush, while drunken as by a strong drink, the Ninevites will be burned like dry straw.