Kussemet כֻּסֶּ֫מֶת
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| כֻּסֶּ֫מֶת | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | kussemet |
| Strong's number | H3698 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | rye |
| Occurrences | 3 in 3 verses |
| Most frequent in | Exodus (1) |
Kussemet (Hebrew כֻּסֶּ֫מֶת, Strong's H3698) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “rye”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
spelt-a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | rie (2), fitches (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | spelt (2), rye (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Kussemet, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Exodus
- Exodus 9:32But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)
Isaiah
- 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?When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
Ezekiel
- 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.But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).