Lexicon
krithé: barley
Original Word: κριθή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: krithé
Phonetic Spelling: (kree-thay')
Short Definition: barley
Definition: barley.
HELPS word-Studies
2915 krithḗ – barley, the grain eaten by the common person, i.e. "poor man's bread" as opposed to using the more expensive grain (wheat). Barley was used "principally as food for horses" (Zod, Dict).
(Rev 6:6) – Unlike annual crops, olives and grapes take years to recover once devastated. The destruction of the oil and wine emphatically then conveys ongoing famine.
[A quart of wheat was the usual amount of food a working man ate per day.]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origina prim. word
Definitionbarley
NASB Translationbarley (1).