Bible dictionaries

Hay

What Bible dictionaries say about “Hay”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Hay - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Properly so called, was not in use among the Hebrews; straw was used instead. They cut the grass green as it was needed. The word rendered "hay" in Prov. 27:25 means the first shoots of the grass. In Isa. 15:6 the Revised Version has correctly "grass," where the Authorized Version has "hay."

Hay - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

HAY, n. Grass cut and dried for fodder; grass prepared for preservation.

Make hay while the sun shines.

To dance the hay, to dance in a ring.

HAY, v.t. To dry or cure grass for preservation.

HAY, n. A hedge.

1. A net which incloses the haunt of an animal.

HAY, v.t. To lay snares for rabbits.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

ha.

See GRASS.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(Heb. chatsir), the rendering of the Authorized Version in (Proverbs 27:25) and Isai 15:6 Of the Hebrew term, which occurs frequently in the Old Testament, and denotes "grass" of any kind. It is quite probable that the modern Orientals do not make hay in our sense of the term; but it is certain that the ancients did mow their grass, and probably made use of the dry material. See (Psalms 37:2) We may remark that there is an express Hebrew term for "dry grass" or "hay," viz. chashash , which, in the only two places where the word occurs, (Isaiah 5:24; 33:11) is rendered "chaff" in the Authorized Version.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith