What does "Wheat" mean in the Bible?

What does the Bible say about Wheat?

WHEAT. In Palestine this most important of all grains was sown after barley, late in the fall. It was not only scattered broadcast and then ploughed, harrowed, or trodden in, Isa 32:20, but it seems, according to the Hebrew of Isa 28:25, to have been planted in rows or drills, as it certainly often is at present in Syria. Wheat-harvest is about a month later than barley-harvest, usually in May. Sixty, or even one hundred, grains may sometimes be counted in an ear of this cereal, according to Tristram, and, as several stalks may spring from a single seed with thorough cultivation, the increase of Matt 13:8 is not at all incredible. Wheat is still produced for export east of the Jordan, where probably Minnith, Eze 27:17, was located. The whole land once produced vast quantities of this cereal, and will again when agriculture is protected and encouraged. Deut 8:8. In the days of Jacob this grain was already so much cultivated in Mesopotamia that "wheat-harvest" denoted a well-known season. Gen 30:14. The many-eared variety, or mummy-wheat, still sometimes cultivated in Egypt and represented on its monuments, is referred to in Pharaoh's dream. Egyptian Wheat. Gen 41:22. In our translation this grain is often mentioned under the general name of "corn." See Corn, Thresh.

What is the Hebrew word for Wheat?

Where does Wheat appear in the Bible?

Wheat is referenced in 27 verses across 16 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.

• 1 Chronicles 21:20
• 1 Chronicles 21:23
• 1 Kings 5:11
• 1 Samuel 6:13
• 1 Samuel 12:17
• 2 Chronicles 2:10
• 2 Chronicles 2:15
• 2 Chronicles 27:5
• 2 Samuel 4:6
• 2 Samuel 17:28
• Deuteronomy 8:8
• Deuteronomy 32:14
• Exodus 9:32
• Exodus 29:2
• Exodus 34:22
• Ezekiel 27:17
• Ezekiel 45:13
• Isaiah 28:25
• Judges 15:1
• Jeremiah 12:13
• Jeremiah 41:8
• Job 31:40
• Joel 1:11
• Psalms 81:16

What else appears in these passages?

These turn up in the same passages as Wheat.