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Millet

דֹּ֫חַןStrong’s H1764

dochan (do-chan)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Dochan is the Hebrew word usually translated “millet”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“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.”
Ezekiel 4:9 KJV
Meaning
  1. Millet
How it's translated
  • and millet 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    דֹּ֫חַן dochan · millet

    millet

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “millet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    MIL'LET, noun

    [Latin milium.]

    A plant of the genus Milium, of several species, one of which is cultivated as an esculent grain.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.