chita · wheat

What it means

chita (חִטָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wheat”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The most valued grain, from which bread was made.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×2
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Joel×1

• Genesis 30:14

  In the days of the wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to Leah his mother. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of the mandrakes of your son.”

• Exodus 9:32

  But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late.

• Exodus 29:2

  and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil; of fine wheat flour you shall make them.

• Exodus 34:22

  And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe for yourself, the first fruits of the harvest of wheat, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

• Deuteronomy 8:8

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

• Deuteronomy 32:14

  curds of cattle and milk of the flock, with the fat of lambs and rams, sons of Bashan, and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and the blood of the grape you drank, foaming wine.

• Judges 6:11

  The angel of YHWH came and sat under the oak that is in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while Gideon his son was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from Midian.

• Judges 15:1

  And it happened after some days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to my wife in the room.” But her father did not let him go in.

• Ruth 2:23

  So she clung to the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

• 1 Samuel 6:13

  Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping the harvest of wheat in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark and rejoiced to see it.

• 1 Samuel 12:17

  Is it not the harvest of wheat today? I will call to YHWH, and he will give thunder and rain; and know and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of YHWH, by asking for yourselves a king.”

• 2 Samuel 4:6

  And there they came into the middle of the house, as though fetching wheat, and they struck him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

• 2 Samuel 17:28

  brought beds, basins, and potter’s vessels, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, and roasted grain,

• 1 Kings 5:11

  And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as sustenance for his house, and twenty kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.

• 1 Chronicles 21:20

  Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

• 1 Chronicles 21:23

  Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; all of it I give.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:10

  And look, to the woodcutters, to those who cut the trees, to your servants, I give twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:15

  So now, the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine that my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants.

• 2 Chronicles 27:5

  He fought with the king of the sons of Ammon and prevailed against them, and the sons of Ammon gave him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and of barley ten thousand. This the sons of Ammon paid him also in the second year and the third.

• Job 31:40

  instead of wheat let thorns come up, and instead of barley, stinkweed.” The words of Job are ended.

• Psalms 81:16

  And he would feed him with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.

• Psalms 147:14

  He sets peace in your borders; with the best of wheat he satisfies you.

• Song of Songs 7:2

  Your navel is a rounded bowl; let it not lack mixed wine; your belly is a heap of wheat fenced with lilies.

• Isaiah 28:25

  Is it not that, when he has leveled its surface, he scatters black cumin and throws cumin, and puts wheat in rows and barley in its marked place and spelt at its border?

• Jeremiah 12:13

  They have sown wheat and thorns they have reaped; they have worn themselves out; it does not profit them. And be ashamed of your harvests because of the burning anger of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 41:8

  But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have hidden treasures in the field, wheat and barley and oil and honey.” So he refrained, and did not put them to death among their brothers.

• Ezekiel 4:9

  And you, take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for yourself; for the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you will eat it.

• Ezekiel 27:17

  Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with wheat of Minnith, and panag, and honey, and oil, and balm they paid for your exchange.

• Ezekiel 45:13

  This is the contribution that you shall set apart: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.

• Joel 1:11

  Be ashamed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field has perished.