Dict: smith - BARLEY

smith:

BARLEY - B>@ - is one of the most important of the cereal grains, and the most hardy of them all. It was grown by the Hebrews, kjv@Leviticus:27:16 kjv@Leviticus:8:8; kjv@Ruth:2:17) etc., who used it for baking into bread chiefly among the poor, kjv@Judges:7:13; kjv@2Kings:4:42; kjv@John:6:9 kjv@John:6:13) and as fodder for horses. (Kings:4:28) The barley harvest, kjv@Ruth:1:22 kjv@Ruth:2:23; 2 Samuel 21:9;10) takes place in Palestine in March and April, and in the hilly district as late as May. It always precedes the wheat harvest, in some places by a week, in others by fully three weeks. In Egypt the barley is about a month earlier than the wheat; whence its total destruction by the hail storm. kjv@Exodus:9:31)