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# wheat

«wheat» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a tall grass plant grown on farms; its grain is ground…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wheat)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wheat is a tall grass plant grown on farms; its grain is ground into flour to make bread, pasta and cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#m1)

2) Wheat is also the grain itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Wheat is one of the seven species that praise the land of Israel. It is also the grain of the harvest feast of Shavuot. Interpretation: Shavuot is called the feast of first-fruits of the wheat harvest, and tradition links the two loaves offered then to the offering from the new wheat. In the primary lessons: In school maths: a crop measured in bushels, kilograms, tonnes or acres; amounts per acre or per bag are rates. In science and geography: a cereal crop, grown in big fields in Canada, the USA, Australia and Ukraine; seeds, harvest, food chains. In everyday life: wholemeal bread, wheat allergy. Phrases: «a field of wheat», «wheat flour», «whole wheat».

### examples

- But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — (Torah EXO.9.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x1)
- a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x2)
- And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. (Torah GEN.30.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x3)
- Is it not wheat harvest to-day? (Prophets 1SA.12.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x4)
- Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x5)
- What hath the straw to do with the wheat? saith the LORD. (Prophets JER.23.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x6)
- The farmer grew 300 bushels of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x7)
- Each acre gives 40 bushels of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x8)
- He sold half of his wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x9)
- A bag holds 50 kg of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x10)
- Bread is made from wheat flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x11)
- The wheat turns golden in late summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x12)
- Canada grows a lot of wheat on its prairies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x13)
- Some people cannot eat wheat because it makes them ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x14)
- A Lark made her nest in a field of young wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/#x15)

### note

Uncountable: «some wheat», «a field of wheat», not «a wheat». Wheat, rice, oats and corn are all cereals. Maths: a crop amount; per acre or per bag is a rate. Wheat is not counted one by one but measured.

### In the corpora

- [And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.900/)
- [But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.267/)
- [a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.254/)
- [Is it not wheat harvest to-day?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.291/)
- [What hath the straw to do with the wheat? saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.648/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wheat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wheat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.