STRONGS NUMBER H2406


Word Summary
chittah: wheat
Original Word: חִטָּה
Transliteration: chittah
Phonetic Spelling: (khit-taw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: wheat
Meaning: wheat
Strong's Concordance
wheaten

Of uncertain derivation; wheat, whether the grain or the plant -- wheat(-en).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2406. chittah

חִטָּהwheat, see below חנט‎.

חטט‎ (√ of following; compare Arabic make lines, marks, line, streak, stripe; Aramaic , חֲטַטdig, furrow, trench).

חִטָּהnoun feminine wheat (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic חִיטְּתָא חִנְטִין,‎, ; Arabic ); — absolute ׳חExodus 9:32 6t.; plural חִטִּיםGenesis 30:14 20t.; חִטִּיןEzekiel 4:9; construct חִטֵּי27:17; — wheat, singular chiefly in poetry, of growing wheat Exodus 9:32 (E), Deuteronomy 8:8; Job 31:40; Joel 1:11; sown Isaiah 28:25; food-product Deuteronomy 32:14 (ח כִּלְיוֺת ׳חֵלֶבkidney-fat of wheat, i.e. the choicest, see חֵלֶב‎), ח ׳חֵלֶב‎ Psalm 81:17 (compare Psalm 147:14 below); elsewhere plural; wheat as sown Jeremiah 12:13; wheat-harvest ח ׳קְצִירGenesis 30:14 (J), Exodus 34:22 (JE), Judges 15:1; 1 Samuel 6:13; 12:17; Ruth 2:23, + 2 Samuel 24:15 where insert according to ᵐ5‎ We Dr; wheat threshed Judges 6:11; 1 Chronicles 20:21 compare 1 Chronicles 20:23; measured 1 Kings 5:25 2 Chronicles 2:9 (מַכּוֺת חטים‎, read ׳ח מַכֹּלֶת‎ as 1 Kings 5:25 = wheat for food Th Be Ke after Vrss), v.1 Kings 4:14; 1Ki 27:5; Ezekiel 45:13; stored (with barley, oil and honey) Jeremiah 41:8; for food 2 Samuel 17:28, חִטִּים חֵלֶבPsalm 147:14 (compare 81:14 above); חִטִּים לֹקְחֵי2 Samuel 4:6 (read ᵐ5 ח ׳סֹקְלָה‎ We Dr); ח ׳סֹלֶתfine wheaten flour Exodus 29:2 (P); Ezekiel 4:9 (חִטִּין‎, Aramaic plural) mixed with barley, beans, lentils, etc., and made into bread.

[חִנְטָה‎] noun feminine wheat (see Biblical Hebrew חִטָּה‎, √ חָנַט‎; NöLCB.1896703 compare Egyptian chnt; Old Aramaic has חטה‎, plural חטי‎, Palmyrene חטא‎ Lzb279 SAC51); — plural חִנְטִיןEzra 6:9; 7:22.