חִטָּה

Genesis 30:14 חִטִּ֗ים wheat<s>

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.”

Exodus 9:32 וְהַחִטָּ֥ה and the wheat

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

Exodus 29:2 חִטִּ֖ים wheat<s>

along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

Exodus 34:22 חִטִּ֑ים wheat<s>

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.

Here: Wheat, in the plural as Hebrew usually has it for the crop. Wheat ripened after barley, in late spring or early summer (roughly May–June). Its harvest ended the grain season.

Deuteronomy 8:8 חִטָּה֙ wheat

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

Deuteronomy 32:14 חִטָּ֑ה 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.

Here: Wheat was the prized grain. Barley was the cheaper, everyday grain of the poor.

Judges 6:11 חִטִּים֙ wheat<s>

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.

Here: Plural, the normal way of speaking of wheat as grain or crop. This was the staple food that the Midianite raiders came to strip from the land (6:4).

Judges 15:1 חִטִּ֗ים wheat<s>

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.

Here: Wheat was harvested late in spring, roughly May into June, after the barley. The fields were dry and the year's main grain was at stake.

Ruth 2:23 הַֽחִטִּ֑ים the wheat<s>

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.

1 Samuel 6:13 חִטִּ֖ים wheat<s>

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 12:17 חִטִּים֙ wheat<s>

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.”

2 Samuel 4:6 חִטִּ֔ים <of> wheat<s>

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 17:28 וְחִטִּ֥ים and wheat<s>

They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

1 Kings 5:11 חִטִּים֙ wheat<s>

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 Chronicles 21:20 חִטִּֽים׃ wheat<s>

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

1 Chronicles 21:23 וְהַחִטִּ֥ים and the wheat<s>

Ornan said to David, “Take it! May my lord the king do whatever seems good to him. 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.”

2 Chronicles 2:10 חִטִּ֨ים׀ wheat<s>

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.”

Here: Wheat, the most valuable bread grain. The plural refers to the grains or the crop.

2 Chronicles 2:15 הַחִטִּ֨ים the wheat<s>

Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.

2 Chronicles 27:5 חִטִּ֔ים wheat<s>

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.

Job 31:40 חִטָּ֨ה׀ wheat

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

Psalm 81:16 חִטָּ֑ה [the] wheat

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

Here: Wheat was the prized bread grain of Israel, worth more than barley, which was the poor man's grain. 'The fat of wheat' means the very best flour or grain. It is a fixed phrase that also appears in Deut 32:14 and Ps 147:14.

Psalm 147:14 חִ֝טִּ֗ים wheat<s>

He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.

Here: Plural, "wheats," meaning wheat grain or harvests of wheat. Wheat was the prized bread grain and ranked above barley, the cheaper food of the poor.

Song of Songs 7:2 חִטִּ֔ים wheat<s>

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

Isaiah 28:25 חִטָּ֤ה wheat

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.

Jeremiah 12:13 חִטִּים֙ wheat<s>

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.”

Here: Wheat in the plural: grains of wheat, wheat crops. Wheat was Judah's most valuable grain and the basis of bread. It stands for the best a farmer could hope for.

Jeremiah 41:8 חִטִּ֥ים wheat<s>

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.

Here: Wheat, given in the plural because it means the grains or the harvest. It was the more valuable of the two main bread grains.

Ezekiel 4:9 חִטִּ֡ין wheat<s>

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 27:17 בְּחִטֵּ֣י for [the] wheat<s> of

Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.

Here: 'With wheat of'. The prefix 'with' marks what was handed over in the exchange, and it governs the whole list that follows. The plural form is normal for wheat as grain or as a crop.

Ezekiel 45:13 הַֽחִטִּ֔ים the wheat<s>

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.

Joel 1:11 חִטָּ֖ה [the] wheat

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