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Deuteronomy 8

Deut. 8:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of wheat
chittah (Hebrew #2406)
wheat, whether the grain or the plant
KJV usage: wheat(-en).
Pronounce: khit-taw'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
, and barley
s`orah (Hebrew #8184)
and (masculine meaning the grain); also s or {seh-ore'}; or s-owr {seh-ore'}; from 8175 in the sense of roughness; barley (as villose)
KJV usage: barley.
Pronounce: seh-o-raw'
Origin: or snowrah {seh-o-raw'} (feminine meaning the plant)
, and vines
gephen (Hebrew #1612)
a vine (as twining), especially the grape
KJV usage: vine, tree.
Pronounce: gheh'-fen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to bend
, and fig trees
t'en (Hebrew #8384)
perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig (tree or fruit)
KJV usage: fig (tree).
Pronounce: teh-ane'
Origin: or (in the singular, feminine) t:enah {teh-ay- naw'}
, and pomegranates
rimmown (Hebrew #7416)
from 7426; a pomegranate, the tree (from its upright growth) or the fruit (also an artificial ornament)
KJV usage: pomegranate.
Pronounce: rim-mone'
Origin: or rimmon {rim-mone'}
; a land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
ζof oil
shemen (Hebrew #8081)
grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness
KJV usage: anointing, X fat (things), X fruitful, oil((-ed)), ointment, olive, + pine.
Pronounce: sheh'-men
Origin: from 8080
olive
zayith (Hebrew #2132)
an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry
KJV usage: olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.
Pronounce: zay'-yith
Origin: probably from an unused root (akin to 2099)
, and honey
dbash (Hebrew #1706)
honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup
KJV usage: honey((-comb)).
Pronounce: deb-ash'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be gummy
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ζ
of olive tree of oil.

More on:

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Barley,
Fig; Fig-Tree,
Honey,
Oil,
Olive, Olive Tree,
Pomegranates; Rimmon,
Vine; Vineyard,
Wheat

Cross References

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wheat.
Deut. 32:14• 14Cream of kine, and milk of sheep,{HR}With the fat of lambs,{HR}And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats,{HR}With the fat of kidneys of wheat;{HR}And thou didst drink pure wine, the blood of the grape.{HR} (Deut. 32:14)
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2 Sam. 4:6• 6And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would fetch wheat; and they smote him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. (2 Sam. 4:6)
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1 Kings 5:11• 11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. (1 Kings 5:11)
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Psa. 81:16• 16And he would have fed them with the finest (fat) of wheat,{HR}And with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. (Psa. 81:16)
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Psa. 147:14• 14He maketh thy border peace;{HR}With the fat of wheat he satisfieth thee; (Psa. 147:14)
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Ezek. 27:17• 17Judah and the land of Israel were thy merchants, they traded in the market wheat of Minnith and Pannag, and honey and oil and balm. (Ezek. 27:17)
barley.
2 Chron. 2:10‑15• 10And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
 11And Huram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loved his people, he made thee king over them.
 12And Huram said, Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, that made the heavens and the earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, who will build a house for Jehovah and a house for his kingdom.
 13And now, I send a skilful man, endued with understanding, Huram Abi,
 14the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and whose father was a man of Tyre, experienced in working in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in byssus, and in crimson, and for doing any manner of engraving, and for inventing every device which shall be put to him, besides thy skilful men, and the skilful men of my lord David thy father.
 15And now the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants. (2 Chron. 2:10‑15)
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John 6:9,13• 9There is a little boy here that hath five barley-loaves and two fishes; but these, what are they for so many?
 13They gathered [them] then, and filled twelve baskets with fragments of the five barley-loaves which were over to those that had eaten. (John 6:9,13)
vines.
Isa. 7:23• 23And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place where were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings shall become briars and thorns. (Isa. 7:23)
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Jer. 5:17• 17And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein thou trustedst. (Jer. 5:17)
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Hos. 2:8,22• 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they made into images of gold.
 22and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. (Hos. 2:8,22)
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Mic. 4:4• 4And they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it. (Mic. 4:4)
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Hab. 3:17• 17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, (Hab. 3:17)
oil olive.
Heb. olive tree of oil.

J. N. Darby Translation

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a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

W. Kelly Translation

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a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)