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חִטָּה H2406

H2406 is the Hebrew word חִטָּה, transliterated chiṭṭâh and said khit-taw'. The King James Version most often renders it wheat.

Word: חִטָּהTransliteration: chiṭṭâhSaid: khit-taw'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 29 verses

What it means

wheat, whether the grain or the plant.

Where it comes from

of uncertain derivation.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 29 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

wheat 25×wheaten 1×now therefore the wheat 1×instead of wheat 1×also unto thee wheat 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: wheat(-en).

Verses using חִטָּה

All 29 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 30:14 · KJV

And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.

Exodus 9:32 · KJV

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

Exodus 29:2 · KJV

And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

Exodus 34:22 · KJV

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

Deuteronomy 8:8 · KJV

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

Deuteronomy 32:14 · KJV

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

Judges 6:11 · KJV

And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 15:1 · KJV

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Ruth 2:23 · KJV

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

1 Samuel 6:13 · KJV

And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

1 Samuel 12:17 · KJV

Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.

2 Samuel 4:6 · KJV

And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

2 Samuel 17:28 · KJV

Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

1 Kings 5:11 · KJV

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

1 Chronicles 21:20 · KJV

And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

1 Chronicles 21:23 · KJV

And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

2 Chronicles 2:10 · KJV

And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

2 Chronicles 2:15 · KJV

Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

2 Chronicles 27:5 · KJV

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

Job 31:40 · KJV

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Psalm 81:16 · KJV

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Song of Solomon 7:2 · KJV

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Isaiah 28:25 · KJV

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 the rie in their place?

Jeremiah 12:13 · KJV

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 41:8 · KJV

But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

Ezekiel 4:9 · KJV

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, 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.

Ezekiel 27:17 · KJV

Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

Ezekiel 45:13 · KJV

This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

Joel 1:11 · KJV

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Common questions

What does Strong's H2406 mean?

H2406 is the Hebrew word חִטָּה (chiṭṭâh), meaning wheat, whether the grain or the plant.

How is H2406 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it wheat (25 times), wheaten (1 time), now therefore the wheat (1 time), instead of wheat (1 time), also unto thee wheat (1 time).

How many times does H2406 appear in the Bible?

חִטָּה (chiṭṭâh) is tagged in 29 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H2406 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: of uncertain derivation.

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