Corn in the bible

[wisemenpray]

Corn is an English word that means "grain" - at least it did when the DRB was written.

Maize is grain(corn). All the grains that are mentioned in the bible are mentioned by their names, wheat, barley, etc. And not by the word corn. Corn in the bible is not wheat or barley because wheat is called wheat in the bible nor is it barley because barley is called barley in the bible (Deuteronomy 8:8).

Therefore common sense, which the translators apparently did have, called it corn because it is not wheat or barley. Maybe just maybe, what we generalize as grain today is not what the people of the bible generalize grain as.

A grain in our understanding today means- wheat or any other cultivated cereal crop used as food.
A grain according to the understanding of the people in the bible means- corn(maize)

In other words, maize(corn) was called grain literally.

 

[GingerBeer]

Maize is grain(corn). All the grains that are mentioned in the bible are mentioned by their names, wheat, barley, etc. And not by the word corn. Corn in the bible is not wheat or barley because wheat is called wheat in the bible nor is it barley because barley is called barley in the bible (Deuteronomy 8:8).

Therefore common sense, which the translators apparently did have, called it corn because it is not wheat or barley. Maybe just maybe, what we generalize as grain today is not what the people of the bible generalize grain as.

A grain in our understanding today means- wheat or any other cultivated cereal crop used as food.
A grain according to the understanding of the people in the bible means- corn(maize)

In other words, maize(corn) was called grain literally.

Bible translators choose the word in English to use for whatever word(s) they are translating from Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek. "Corn" does, in English, mean grain. It does not mean "maize" except perhaps in the USA. "Sweet corn" is the phrase for "Maize" in Australia, though "corn" without "sweet" is also used because of its common use in USA english. The douay rheims bible was produced by English scholars in the early seventeenth century and they used "corn" as "grain" whenever they did not want to identify a specific grain.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Deuteronomy 8 verse 8: "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey"

Why didn't they use the translation: A land of corn, and corn, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates?

or in 1 Kings 4:28

28: Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

Shouldn't Barley be corn as well?

Not when the words used specifically refer to wheat and barley. חִטָּה means "wheat", and שְׂעֹרָה means "barley".

דָּגָן is the generic Hebrew word for cereal grain, and does get rendered as "corn" in archaic translations like the KJV. Such as in Genesis 27:28

-CryptoLutheran

 

[ViaCrucis]

Therefore common sense, which the translators apparently did have, called it corn because it is not wheat or barley.

They called it "corn" because the original text uses the generic term(s) for cereal grain. In the Greek of Matthew 12:1 Jesus and His disciples went into the σπόριμος, the "seed-field" and plucked the στάχυας, the "stalks of grain", to eat.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[wisemenpray]

If you can grow maize in Palestine without modern irrigation, you are one heck of a farmer.

or
God Provided

The Lord explains perfectly well how he was able to do this. Psalms 65:8-10

8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

Wise men pray!

 

[ViaCrucis]

or
God Provided

The Lord explains perfectly well how he was able to do this. Psalms 65:8-10

8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

Wise men pray!

דָּגָן "grain".

"You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it." - Psalm 65:9

-CryptoLutheran

 

[St. Helens]

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