The meaning of “כֻּסֶּמֶת”
Understanding kuççemeth reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
fitches, rie. - spelt (from its bristliness as if just shorn) 1) spelt-a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fa...
כֻּסֶּמֶת
fitches, rie. - spelt (from its bristliness as if just shorn) 1) spelt-a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Exodus 9:32 | “But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.” Word: כֻּסֶּמֶת (kuççemeth) | |
| Isaiah 28:25 | “When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?” Word: כֻּסֶּמֶת (kuççemeth) | |
| Ezekiel 4:9 | “Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.” Word: כֻּסֶּמֶת (kuççemeth) |