1. wheat (grain crop) — Wheat as a cereal grain crop, one of the primary agricultural products of ancient Israel, mentioned in harvest contexts (Gen 30:14; Exod 34:22; Judg 6:11; Ruth 2:23; 1 Sam 6:13; 12:17), as trade goods (1 Kgs 5:11; 2 Chr 2:10, 15; Ezra 6:9; Ezek 27:17), and in offerings (Num 18:12). All three clusters represent the same noun in different syntactic positions: plain nominal 'wheat / the wheat' (arb: قَمْح / الْقَمْح, kor: 밀을/밀과, swa: ngano), construct/genitive 'of wheat' (arb: الْحِنْطَةِ / حِنْطَةٍ, hin: गेहूँ की, kor: 밀의, swa: ya ngano), and prepositional 'with wheat of' (arb: بِحِنْطَةِ, kor: 밀로, swa: kwa ngano ya). All languages uniformly translate as wheat — spa: trigo, hin: गेहूँ/गेहूं, kor: 밀, swa: ngano — confirming a single undifferentiated sense. 30×
AR["الحِنْطَةِ","الـ-حِنْطَةِ","القَمحِ","الْحِنْطَةِ","الْقَمْحَ","الْقَمْحِ","حِنطَةٍ","حِنْطَةٍ","قَمْحاً","قَمْحًا","قَمْحٌ"]·ben["গম","গমের"]·DE["[החטים]","[חטה]","[חטים]","[חטין]","des-Weizens","wheat"]·EN["the-wheat","wheat"]·FR["[החטים]","[חטה]","[חטים]","[חטין]","blé","froment","wheat"]·heb["ה-חיטה","חיטה","חיטים","חיטין"]·HI["गेहूँ","गेहूँ-की","गेहूँ-की-जगह","गेहूँ-के","गेहूं","गेहूं-की"]·ID["gandum","gandum-"]·IT["[חטה]","[חטים]","[חטין]","frumento","grano","wheat"]·jav["gandum","gandum,"]·KO["그-밀들","밀","밀과","밀들","밀을","밀의"]·PT["do-trigo","o-trigo","trigo","trigos"]·RU["пшеница","пшенице","пшеницу","пшеницы","пшеничная"]·ES["el-trigo","trigo","trigos"]·SW["ngano","ngano-zilizopigwa","wa-ngano","ya-ngano","za-ngano"]·TR["bugdayi","buğday","buğdayların","buğdayı","buğdayın"]·urd["گندم","گندم-کی","گیہوں","گیہوں کے","گیہوں-کا","گیہوں-کی","گیہوں-کے"]
Gen 30:14, Exod 9:32, Exod 29:2, Exod 34:22, Deut 8:8, Deut 32:14, Judg 6:11, Judg 15:1, Ruth 2:23, 1 Sam 6:13, 1 Sam 12:17, 2 Sam 4:6 (+18 more)
Senses
Related Senses
H3754 1. vineyard, cultivated grape plot (92×)H0730 1. cedar tree or wood (73×)H1612 1. vine, grapevine (55×)H3293a 1. forest, wood, thicket (55×)H5560 1. fine flour (53×)H5193 1. plant vegetation (48×)H2232 1. sow seed, plant crops (41×)H1715 1. grain, cereal crop (40×)H7114b 1. reap, harvest grain (36×)H2132 1. olive tree (34×)H8184 1. barley (34×)H7070 1. reed, cane (plant) (30×)H7848 1. acacia (28×)H8328 1. root of a plant (28×)H8384 1. fig tree (25×)H5488 1. reeds, rushes (in 'Sea of Reeds') (24×)G0290 1. a vineyard (23×)G2325 1. reap, harvest a crop (21×)G4687 1. sow seed, plant (21×)G0837 1. grow, increase (intransitive) (20×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חִטָּה n.f. wheat (NH id., Aramaic חִנְטִין, חִיטְּתָא, ܚܶܛܬܳܐ; Arabic حِنْطَةٌ );—abs. ח׳ Ex 9:32 + 6 times; pl. חִטִּים Gn 30:14 + 20 times; חִטִּין Ez 4:9; cstr. חִטֵּי Ez 27:17;—wheat, sg. chiefly poet., of growing wheat Ex 9:32 (E), Dt 8:8 Jb 31:40; Jo 1:11; sown Is 28:25; food-product Dt 32:14 (חֵלֶב כִּלְיוֹת ח׳ kidney-fat of wheat, i.e. the choicest, v. חֵלֶב) חֵלֶב ח׳ ψ 81:17 (cf.…