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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2406

חִטָּה

chittahkhit-taw'

wheat

30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: chiṭṭâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2406is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 17 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 22
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2406

wheat, whether the grain or the plant

The King James renders it: wheat(-en).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

chittah is rendered "wheat". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:14Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.

The first use

Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 30:14חִטִּ֗ים

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in seventeen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 22 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • wheats16
  • wheat6
  • the wheats3
  • and the wheat1
  • and the wheats1
  • and wheats1
  • for wheats of1
  • of wheats1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 30, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

22 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • חִטִּים֙4
  • חִטִּ֔ים3
  • חִטָּ֑ה2
  • חִטִּ֗ים2
  • חִטִּ֖ים2
  • בְּחִטֵּ֣י1
  • הַֽחִטִּ֑ים1
  • הַחִטִּ֨ים1
  • הַֽחִטִּ֔ים1
  • וְהַחִטָּ֥ה1
  • וְהַחִטִּ֥ים1
  • וְחִטִּ֥ים1

and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural17HNcmpa
  • noun · feminine singular6HNcfsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc

Genesis

one use
  • Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

    Genesis 30:14

    • חִטִּ֗יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

Exodus

three uses
  • but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)

    Exodus 9:32

    • וְהַחִטָּ֥הvehachitahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the wheat
  • along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

    Exodus 29:2

    • חִטִּ֖יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats
  • And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

    Exodus 34:22

    • חִטִּ֑יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

    Deuteronomy 8:8

    • חִטָּה֙chitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wheat
  • with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

    Deuteronomy 32:14

    • חִטָּ֑הchitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wheat

Judges

two uses
  • Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

    Judges 6:11

    • חִטִּים֙chitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats
  • Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

    Judges 15:1

    • חִטִּ֗יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

Ruth

one use
  • So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

    Ruth 2:23

    • הַֽחִטִּ֑יםhachitimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the wheats

1 Samuel

two uses
  • Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.

    1 Samuel 6:13

    • חִטִּ֖יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats
  • Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”

    1 Samuel 12:17

    • חִטִּים֙chitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

2 Samuel

two uses
  • They entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

    2 Samuel 4:6

    • חִטִּ֔יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: of wheats
  • They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

    2 Samuel 17:28

    • וְחִטִּ֥יםvechitimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and wheats

1 Kings

one use
  • and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.

    1 Kings 5:11

    • חִטִּים֙chitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

    1 Chronicles 21:20

    • חִטִּֽים׃chitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats
  • Ornan said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”

    1 Chronicles 21:23

    • וְהַחִטִּ֥יםvehachitimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the wheats

2 Chronicles

three uses
  • I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”

    2 Chronicles 2:10

    • חִטִּ֨ים׀chitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats
  • Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.

    2 Chronicles 2:15

    • הַחִטִּ֨יםhachitimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the wheats
  • Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.

    2 Chronicles 27:5

    • חִטִּ֔יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

Job

one use
  • then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

    Job 31:40

    • חִטָּ֨ה׀chitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wheat

Psalms

two uses
  • But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

    Psalms 81:16

    • חִטָּ֑הchitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wheat
  • He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.

    Psalms 147:14

    • חִ֝טִּ֗יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.

    Song of Solomon 7:2

    • חִטִּ֔יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

Isaiah

one use
  • 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.

    Isaiah 28:25

    • חִטָּ֤הchitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wheat

Jeremiah

two uses
  • They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

    Jeremiah 12:13

    • חִטִּים֙chitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats
  • But ten of the men among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he refrained from killing them with the others.

    Jeremiah 41:8

    • חִטִּ֥יםchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats

Ezekiel

three uses
  • 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.

    Ezekiel 4:9

    • חִטִּ֡יןchitinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wheats
  • Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.

    Ezekiel 27:17

    • בְּחִטֵּ֣יbechiteipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for wheats of
  • This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

    Ezekiel 45:13

    • הַֽחִטִּ֔יםhachitimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the wheats

Joel

one use
  • Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

    Joel 1:11

    • חִטָּ֖הchitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wheat

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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