Wheat
חִנְטָהStrong’s H2591chintah (chin-tah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chintah is the Aramaic word usually translated “wheat”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:”
Meaning
- Wheat
How it's translated
- wheat 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Aramaic dictionary
חִנְטָה chintah · wheat
wheat Aramaic of chit.tah (חִטָּה "wheat" H2406)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.