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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Corn" throughout the Old Testament refers to maize, the same corn on the cob eaten today
"Corn" meant grain in general (wheat, barley, etc.); maize didn't exist in the biblical Near East.
Ruth 2:14, in every translation this tool compares.
Ruth 2:14 has Boaz handing Ruth "parched corn" to eat in the barley fields near Bethlehem; there was no maize anywhere near Iron Age Israel. "Corn" in British English (the KJV translators were English) is simply the generic word for the dominant local grain, the way Americans still say "corn" for maize specifically because that became their dominant grain. It shows up over a hundred times in the KJV, almost always referring to wheat or barley.
American readers in particular default to "corn" meaning maize, since that's the only sense the word carries in American English today, a meaning maize-growing America gave the word centuries after 1611.
