Words the Bible translates as wheat
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- sitosσῖτοςwheat: the cereal grain harvested for bread, and by extension grain as a stored or traded food staple
- ḥittahחִטָּהwheat: the main bread grain of ancient Israel, prized above barley
- barבַּרgrain: the threshed kernel of a cereal harvest, the clean part that is heaped up, measured, stored, and sold
+1 more meaning
- the open country: unfenced, untilled land where wild animals live
- ḥintahחִנְטָהwheatnot studied yet
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