The Definition of the word Hay

Hay

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."