# H8401 תֶּבֶן

תֶּבֶן (teben), Strong’s H8401: properly, material, i.e. (specifically) refuse haum or stalks of grain (as chopped in threshing and used for fodder) KJV: chaff, straw, stubble.. Occurs 17 times.

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*teben* — properly, material, i.e. (specifically) refuse haum or stalks of grain (as chopped in threshing and used for fodder)

KJV: chaff, straw, stubble.

Derived from [בָּנָה bânâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H1129) (to build)

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תֶּ֫בֶן n.m. straw (√ unknown)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 24:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=25) — She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”
- [Genesis 24:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=32) — The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his…
- [Exodus 5:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=7) — “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- [Exodus 5:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=10) — The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh…
- [Exodus 5:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=11) — Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
- [Exodus 5:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=12) — So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- [Exodus 5:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=13) — The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
- [Exodus 5:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=16) — No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault…
- [Exodus 5:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=18) — Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
- [Judges 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/19?v=19) — Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and…