Aramaic word · H2591

חִנְטָה

chintin

wheat

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

wheat

Aramaic of chit.tah (חִטָּה "wheat" H2406)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 2

  1. Ezra 6:9 חִנְטִ֞ין wheat<s>

    Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.

  2. Ezra 7:22 חִנְטִין֙ wheat<s>

    up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.

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