Kuççemeth — H3698

Definition

feminine noun

spelt (from its bristliness as if just shorn)

1. spelt-a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring

Usually translated as

fitches, rie

Origin

from H3697

• Derived from Kâçam (H3697)

Occurrences

Kuççemeth occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Exodus 9:32 — But the wheat and (וְהַכֻּסֶּ֖מֶת) the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
• Isaiah 28:25 — When 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 (וְכֻסֶּ֖מֶת) the rie in their place?
• Ezekiel 4:9 — Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches (וְכֻסְּמִ֗ים), 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.