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title: כֻּסֶּמֶת — spelt · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֻּסֶּמֶת (3698), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: spelt. BDB 1906: n.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֻּסֶּמֶת

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«כֻּסֶּמֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spelt** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3698 · **BDB:** כֻּסֶּ֫מֶת

### Glosses

spelt (2); spelt(s) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

spelt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3698/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3698/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. spelt, triticum spelta (NH pl. כוּסְמִין, cf. 𝔗 𝔖 כונתא, ܟܽܘܢܬܳܐ; cf. Löwp. 104 ff. Di Ex 9:23 NowArch. i, 111);—abs. כ׳ Ex 9:32 Is 28:25 pl. כֻּסְּמִים Ez 4:9 (in all disting. from wheat, barley, etc.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֻּסֶּמֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3698/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 9:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.32/)

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וְהַחִטָּ֥ה וְהַכֻּסֶּ֖מֶת לֹ֣א נֻכּ֑וּ כִּ֥י אֲפִילֹ֖ת הֵֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* and the wheat and the spelt not they.were.struck (dm) \[are\].late.\[crops\] they

*JPS 1917:* But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —

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[Isaiah 28:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.25/)

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הֲלוֹא֙ אִם־שִׁוָּ֣ה פָנֶ֔יהָ וְהֵפִ֥יץ קֶ֖צַח וְכַמֹּ֣ן יִזְרֹ֑ק וְשָׂ֨ם חִטָּ֤ה שׂוֹרָה֙ וּשְׂעֹרָ֣ה נִסְמָ֔ן וְכֻסֶּ֖מֶת גְּבֻלָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not if he.has.leveled surface its and does.he.scatter black.cumin and cumin does.he.sprinkle? and does.he.put? wheat a.row and barley an.appointed.\[place\] and spelt border its

*JPS 1917:* When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place and the spelt in the border thereof?

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