Wheat
חִטָּהStrong’s H2406chittah (chit-tah)
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chittah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wheat” and “wheat of”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.”
Meaning
- Wheatwheat (plant) · wheat flour
How it's translated
- wheat 23
- the wheat 3
- and the wheat 2
- and wheat 1
- for wheat of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Judges 2
- 1 Samuel 2
17 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:32But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
- Exodus 29:2And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 34:22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
- Deuteronomy 8:8A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- Deuteronomy 32:14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
- Judges 6:11And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
All 30 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חִטָּה chittah · wheat
1) wheat 1a) wheat (plant) 1b) wheat flour Aramaic equivalent: chin.tah (חִנְטָה "wheat" H2591)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wheat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHEAT, noun
[G.]
A plant of the genus Triticum, and the seed of the plant, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and next to rice, is the grain most generally used by the human race. Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat white wheat bald wheat bearded wheat winter wheat summer wheat etc.
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.