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Grains (6 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Grains (6 Occurrences). Matthew 13:4 and as he sowed,
some grains fell along the way, and the birds came and devoured them; (DBY). ...
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Weights (14 Occurrences)
... It was the twentieth part of a shekel, and equal to 12 grains. (2.) Bekah (Exodus
38:26), meaning "a half" ie, "half a shekel," equal to 5 pennyweight. ...
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Measures (50 Occurrences)
... 3. Weights: Weights were probably based by the ancients upon grains of wheat or
barley, but the Egyptians and Babylonians early adopted a more scientific method ...
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Grain (413 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered
equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. ...
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Shekel (37 Occurrences)
... Weight, the common standard both of weight and value among the Hebrews. It is estimated
at 220 English grains, or a little more than half an ounce avoirdupois. ...
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Dram
... 1. (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty
grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 ...
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Daric
... Persian domination. It weighed about 128 grains troy, and was of the value
of about one guinea or rather more of our money. It is ...
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Corn (107 Occurrences)
... a grain. 3. (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used
for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats. 4. (n.) The ...
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Wheat (56 Occurrences)
... One of the earliest cultivated grains. ... 27:17; Acts 12:20). Parched grains of wheat
were used for food in Palestine (Ruth 2:14; 1 Samuel 17:17; 2 Samuel 17:28). ...
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Drachma (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern
Greeks, a weight equal to a gram. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Bible Concordance

Grains (6 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:4 and as he sowed, some grains fell along the way, and the birds came and devoured them;
(DBY)

Hebrews 11:12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
(See RSV)

Job 29:18 Then I said,'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
(See NIV)

Psalms 139:18 If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
(BBE NIV)

Isaiah 48:19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Joel 1:17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.
(BBE JPS)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n. pl.) See Grain.

2. (n.) Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.

Strong's Hebrew

4579. maah -- a grain (of sand)
... 4578, 4579. maah. 4580 . a grain (of sand). Transliteration: maah Phonetic
Spelling: (may-aw') Short Definition: grains. Word Origin ...
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8188. Seorim -- an Israelite priest
... priest NASB Word Usage Seorim (1). Seorim. Masculine plural of s'orah; barley grains;
Seorim, an Israelite -- Seorim. see HEBREW s'orah. 8187, 8188. ...
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Library

Bread and Wine
... Grains of wheat are put in the ground by the farmer, and these grains give up their
lives in order that other grains may grow on the stalk at harvest-time. ...
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Psalm LXVII.
... He hath not imitated the ant, he hath not gathered to himself grains, while it
was summer. [2652] What have I meant by, while it was summer? ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxvii.htm

section 2
... Up till then the grains fall off unheeded; but now it develops a surface, glutinous
in some cases, velvety in others, that can clasp and keep them fast. ...
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John Chapter vi. 14-Jan
... For who even now feeds the whole world, but He who creates the cornfield
from a few grains? He therefore created as God creates. ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate xxiv john chapter vi.htm

Epistle Xliv. To Peter, Subdeacon of Sicily.
... payment, and, so far as the powers of the peasants go, let them make a payment in
gross amounting to seventy-two [1349] : and let neither grains [1350] beyond ...
/.../the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle xliv to peter subdeacon.htm

Petilianus Said: "But if These are the Parties...
... are said to be few in comparison with the multitude of the unrighteous, just as,
in comparison with the chaff, there may be said to be few grains of corn in ...
/.../chapter 45 105 petilianus.htm

Whether Wheaten Bread is Required for the Matter of this Sacrament ...
... from such grain can be the matter of this sacrament: and this does not obtain either
in barley, or in spelt, or even in maize, which is of all grains the one ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether wheaten bread is required.htm

The Soul Winner
... Within a short time a few grains of wheat would suffice to seed the whole world,
and a few true saints might suffice for the conversion of all nations. ...
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Whether Christ Worked Miracles Fittingly on Irrational Creatures?
... creation, but by an addition of extraneous matter transformed into loaves; hence
Augustine says on Jn.6:1-14: "Whence He multiplieth a few grains into harvests ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ worked miracles fittingly 2.htm

1 Cor. x. 13
... For as the bread consisting of many grains is made one, so that the grains no where
appear; they exist indeed, but their difference is not seen by reason of ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xxiv 1 cor x.htm

Subtopics

Grains

Related Terms

Weights (14 Occurrences)

Measures (50 Occurrences)

Grain (413 Occurrences)

Shekel (37 Occurrences)

Dram

Daric

Corn (107 Occurrences)

Wheat (56 Occurrences)

Drachma (2 Occurrences)