Bible Dictionary: Barn

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

A storehouse (Deuteronomy 28:8; Job 39:12; Haggai 2:19) for grain, which was usually under ground, although also sometimes above ground (Luke 12:18).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

2. (v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

3. (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BARN

barn (meghurah, "a granary," "fear," Haggai 2:19; acam, "a storehouse," Proverbs 3:10; mammeghurah, "a repository," Joel 1:17; apotheke, Matthew 6:26; Matthew 13:30 Luke 12:18, 24): A place for the storing of grain, usually a dry cistern in the ground, covered over with a thick layer of earth. "Grain is not stored in the East until it is threshed and winnowed. The apotheke in Roman times was probably a building of some kind. But the immemorial usage of the East has been to conceal the grain, in carefully prepared pits or caves, which, being perfectly dry, will preserve it for years. It thus escaped, as far as possible, the attentions of the tax-gatherer as well as of the robber-not always easily distinguished in the East; compare Jeremiah 41:8 " (Temple Dictionary, 215).

Figurative of heaven (Matthew 13:30).

See AGRICULTURE; GARNER.

M. O. Evans

Greek

596. apotheke -- a place for putting away, hence a storehouse
... of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apotheke Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-oth-ay'-kay) Short Definition: a repository, granary, barn, storehouse Definition: ...
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5009. tameion -- an inner chamber
... Transliteration: tameion Phonetic Spelling: (tam-i'-on) Short Definition: a secret
chamber Definition: a store-chamber, secret chamber, closet; a granary, barn ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4035. megurah -- a storehouse, granary
... 4034, 4035. megurah. 4036 . a storehouse, granary. Transliteration: megurah
Phonetic Spelling: (meg-oo-raw') Short Definition: barn. ... barn, fear. ...
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4460. mammegurah -- granary, storehouse
... barn. From magar (in the sense of depositing); a granary -- barn. see HEBREW
magar. 4459, 4460. mammegurah. 4461 . Strong's Numbers.
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1637. goren -- threshing floor
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition threshing floor NASB Word Usage
threshing floor (34), threshing floors (2). barn, void place. ...
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618. asam -- a storehouse
... barn, storehouse. From an unused root meaning to heap together; a storehouse (only
in the plural) -- barn, storehouse. 617, 618. asam. 619 . Strong's Numbers
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Library

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 19, Etc. , Where the Lord ...
... "In the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the
tares, to burn them, but gather the wheat into My barn." Why are ye so hasty ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xxiii on the words.htm

The Death of the Christian
... he is coming across the field to reap his harvest; and then, by-and-bye, it shall
be carried into the barn and safely housed, no more subject to blight, or ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the death of the christian.htm

Answers to Prayer.
... As the purchaser of their old home wanted possession as soon as possible, Mr.
Worthington had time to build only a barn before removing his family. ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter xviii answers to prayer.htm

How Brother Giles Went to St James the Great
... And as he went asking alms, and finding none who would give to him, he came one
evening by chance to a barn, where a few beans lay scattered on the ground. ...
/.../the little flowers of st francis of assisi/chapter ii how brother giles.htm

Perfect Knowledge Cannot be Attained in the Present Life: Many ...
... are in His own presence, just as He brings an infant which has been conceived in
the womb into the light of the sun, and lays up wheat in the barn after He has ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxviii perfect knowledge cannot be.htm

Toplady
... Dublin. While on a visit in Ireland in his sixteenth year he was awakened
and converted at a service held in a barn in Codymain. ...
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Wesley in the Fens
... Here many people had lately been stirred up: they had prepared alarge barn. ... A large
barn was ready, in which Mr. Berridge and Mr. Venn used to preach. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley in the fens.htm

Anxious About Earth, or Earnest About the Kingdom
... Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse
nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/anxious about earth or earnest.htm

Conjunctions, 99-111
... Rev.8:1 hotan enoixe. Cp. Barn. Ep.4:14 hotan blepete, 15:5 hotan . . . ... Tobit 7:11
hopote ean eiseporeuonto. Cp. Barn. Ep.12:3 hopotan katheilen. 105. ...
/.../conybeare/a grammar of septuagint greek/conjunctions 99-111.htm

Influence of the Lxx. On Christian Biblical Literature.
... D). Barn.9.8 mathete hoti tous dekaokto protous, kai diastema poiesas legei triakosious;
to dekaokto ( ) echeis Iesoun; hoti de ho stauros en to T emellen ...
/.../chapter v influence of the.htm

Thesaurus

Barn (6 Occurrences)
... In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. 2. (vt) To lay
up in a barn. 3. (n.) A child. ... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BARN. ...
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Barn-floor (1 Occurrence)
Barn-floor. Barnfloor, Barn-floor. Barns . Multi-Version Concordance
Barn-floor (1 Occurrence). 2 Kings 6:27 And he ...
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Wheat (56 Occurrences)
... He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with
unquenchable fire." (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Mow (1 Occurrence)
... 10. (n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn. 11. (n.)
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed. 12. ...
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Burn (206 Occurrences)
... He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with
unquenchable fire." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Unquenchable (5 Occurrences)
... He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with
unquenchable fire." (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Fork (8 Occurrences)
... threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will
burn up with unquenchable fire." (WEB NAS RSV NIV). Luke ...
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Floor (69 Occurrences)
... He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with
unquenchable fire." (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Threshing (57 Occurrences)
... floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn
up with unquenchable fire." (WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Thoroughly (48 Occurrences)
... floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn
up with unquenchable fire." (WEB ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS). ...
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Bible Concordance

Barn (6 Occurrences)

Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
(WEB NAS NIV)

Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 3:17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
(WEB NAS NIV)

Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
(WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 39:12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
(KJV WBS)

Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Barn

Barn: General Scriptures Concerning

Related Terms

Barn-floor (1 Occurrence)

Wheat (56 Occurrences)

Mow (1 Occurrence)

Burn (206 Occurrences)

Unquenchable (5 Occurrences)

Fork (8 Occurrences)

Floor (69 Occurrences)

Threshing (57 Occurrences)