Rye
כֻּסֶּ֫מֶתStrong’s H3698kussemet (kus-se-met)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kussemet is the Hebrew word usually translated “spelt”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.”
Meaning
- Spelt-a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring
How it's translated
- and spelt 2
- and the spelt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 28:25When 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?
- Ezekiel 4:9Take 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.
Hebrew dictionary
כֻּסֶּ֫מֶת kussemet · rye
spelt-a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rye” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RYE, noun
[This word is the English rough.]
- An esculent grain of the genus Secale, of a quality inferior to wheat, but a species of grain easily cultivated, and constituting a large portion of bread stuff.
- A disease in a hawk.
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.