Stubble

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Καλάμη (Strong'S #2562 — Noun Feminine — kalame — kal-am'-ay )

"a stalk of corn," denotes "straw" or "stubble;" in  1—Corinthians 3:12 , metaphorically of the effect of the most worthless form of unprofitable doctrine, in the lives and conduct of those in a church who are the subjects of such teaching; the teachings received and the persons who receive them are associated; the latter are "the doctrine exhibited in concrete form" (Lightfoot).

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Job 13:25 (b) Job uses this figure to describe himself as one who has been cut down, cast out and is no longer useful.

 Isaiah 33:11 (b) This is a type of the results of a worthless life spent in sin and in rebellion against GOD.

 1 Corinthians 3:12 (a) Many of the works which Christians do in the Name of the Lord have no value. They produce nothing for the glory of GOD, and will be destroyed at the judgment seat of Christ

King James Dictionary

Stubble n. L. The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats or buckwheat, left in the ground the part of the stalk left by the sythe or sickle.

After the first crop is off, they plow in the stubble.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joel 2:5 Isaiah 5:24 Exodus 5:12

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

STUBBLE . See Straw.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering in the A.V. of two Heb. and one Gr. word:

1. Usually קִשׁ , Kash (which is invariably so rendered), so called from its dryness, which denotes the dry halm of grain, partly as left standing in the fields ( Exodus 5:12), and then sometimes burned over ( Exodus 15:7;  Isaiah 5:24;  Isaiah 47:14;  Joel 2:5;  Nahum 1:10;  Obadiah 1:18), and partly as broken up into chaff by treading out the grain, and so separated by ventilation ( Job 13:25; Job 42:20 [28]; Psalm 83:24;  Isaiah 40:24;  Isaiah 41:2;  Jeremiah 13:24). (See Chaff).

2. Once תֶּבֶן , Teben ( Job 21:18), properly Straw, as used for provender. (See Straw).

3. Once Καλαμή ( 1 Corinthians 3:12), which denotes in general the stalk of grain after the ears are removed (Xenoph.  1 Corinthians 3:5 ;  1 Corinthians 3:18; Sept. for קִשׁ ,  Exodus 15:7;  Joel 2:5). In Egypt the reapers only cut off the ears of the corn with the sickle, leaving the straw, which they deemed worthless, to rot on the ground. Hence when the cruel Pharaoh commanded the Hebrew brick makers to gather straw for themselves ( Exodus 5:12), though guilty of excessive tyranny, he did not, as some have supposed, ordain a physical impossibility. (See Brick).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

stub ´' 50 ( קשׁ , ḳash (  Exodus 5:12 , etc.); καλάμη , kalámē (The Wisdom of Solomon 3:7;  1 Corinthians 3:12 )): These Hebrew and Greek forms are used of the stalks of wheat, etc., left knee-high in the field by the reapers. תּבן , tebhen ( Job 21:18 ), is a mixture of chopped straw and chaff produced in threshing, which is winnowed out by the fan (compare  Jeremiah 23:28;  Isaiah 5:24;  Matthew 3:12 ). When tebhen was withheld from them the Israelites had to utilize ḳash for the manufacture of their bricks ( Exodus 5:12 ).