Barley
Everyday grain of the poor and the first harvest, featured in Ruth and the feeding miracle.
Scripture
Deuteronomy 8:8
8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Ruth 2:17
17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
John 6:9
9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"
References
- Deuteronomy 8:8
- Ruth 2:17
- John 6:9