Original Word: κριθή, ῆς, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: krithé
Phonetic Spelling: (kree-thay')
Short Definition: barley
Definition: barley.

2915 krithḗ – barley, the grain eaten by the common person, i.e. "poor man's bread" as opposed to using the more expensive grain (wheat). Barley was used "principally as food for horses" (Zod, Dict).

(Rev 6:6) – Unlike annual crops, olives and grapes take years to recover once devastated. The destruction of the oil and wine emphatically then conveys ongoing famine.

[A quart of wheat was the usual amount of food a working man ate per day.]

STRONGS NT 2915: κριθή

κριθή, κριθῆς, ἡ (in Greek writings (from Homer down) only in plural αἱ κριθαί), the Sept. for שְׂעֹרָה, barley: Revelation 6:6 κριθῆς R G, κριθῶν L T Tr WH.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

barley.

Of uncertain derivation; barley -- barley.

Forms and Transliterations

κριθαί κριθάς κριθή κριθήν κριθής κριθων κριθών κριθῶν krithon krithôn krithōn krithō̂n

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