'Straw' in the Bible
We have plenty of straw and feed," she added, "and room for you to spend the night."
So Abraham's servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.
"You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.
So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, "Thus says Pharaoh: 'I am not giving you straw.
You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.'"
So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.
The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, "Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!"
No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, 'Make bricks!' Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people."
So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!"
We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing."
Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses.
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.
A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.
For the Lord's power will make this mountain secure. Moab will be trampled down where it stands, as a heap of straw is trampled down in a manure pile.
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.
A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake's food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain," says the Lord.
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.
Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!
Bunch yourselves together like straw, you undesirable nation,