HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3698
כֻּסֶּ֫מֶת
kus.se.met — rye
spelt-a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring
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Rye
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G8500
ὄλυρα
olura — a wild oat
mostly in plural ὄλυραι, a kind of grain, spelt or rye , (Iliad by Homer); compare ζειά. (ML)
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=Rie, (Heb. kussemeth), found in Ex. 9:32; Isa. 28:25, in all of which the margins of the Authorized and of the Revised Versions have “spelt.” This Hebrew word also occurs in Ezek. 4:9, where the Authorized Version has “fitches’ (q.v.) and the Revised Version “spelt.” This, there can be no doubt, was the Triticum spelta, a species of hard, rough-grained wheat.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.