te.ven denotes dry plant material gathered for brickmaking, kept as animal feed, and used in comparisons.

The supplied verses show this noun most often in the Exodus account as a material withheld, sought, and gathered while the required brick output remains unchanged. It also occurs among provisions for animals and in comparisons involving what animals eat, what the wind carries away, and straw set beside wheat.

1. Dry plant material in work, feed, and comparison · dominant

   In Exodus 5:7, the same masculine singular absolute form occurs twice in Pharaoh's order not to supply the people with the material for making bricks and to make them gather it themselves; Exodus 5:16 joins its absence to the command, "Make bricks." Genesis 24:32 places it with fodder for camels, while Isaiah 11:7 depicts a lion eating it like an ox. Jeremiah 23:28 sets it beside wheat, and Job 21:18 compares the wicked to it before the wind.

   Exodus 5:7Exodus 5:16Genesis 24:32Isaiah 11:7Jeremiah 23:28Job 21:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents the noun as "straw" in the brickmaking, animal-provision, animal-diet, wheat-comparison, and wind-comparison contexts. In 1 Kings 5:8 and Job 41:19, the supplied APB wording does not make this noun's contribution apparent.