Qetsach — H7100

Definition

masculine noun

fennelflower (from its pungency)

1. black cummin
1. a plant with small black acrid seeds used as a condiment

Usually translated as

fitches

Origin

from an unused root apparently meaning to incise

Occurrences

Qetsach occurs 3 times in 2 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Isaiah (2)

• Isaiah 28:25 — When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches (קֶ֖צַח), and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
• Isaiah 28:27 — For the fitches (קֶ֔צַח) are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
• Isaiah 28:27 — For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches (קֶ֖צַח) are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.