fitches

Of the two former, together with the vine, olive and fig, the use of irrigation, the plough and the harrow, mention is made ln the book of (Job 31: 40; 15: 33; 24: 6; 29: 19; 39: 10) Two kinds of cumin (the black variety called fitches), (Isaiah 28: 27) and such podded plants as beans and lentils may be named among the staple produce.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

V. "fitches" is wrong, nor does queçakh stand for the nutmeg flower, as

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

( "fitches") and cummin, leguminous and tender grains, are beaten out, not as wheat, &c., with the heavy corn-drag ( "threshing instrument"), but with "a staff"; heavy instruments would crush and injure the seed. cart wheel -- two iron wheels armed with iron teeth, like a saw, joined together by a wooden axle.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

"fitches" (vetches), wheat, barley and "rie" (rye), seems then to have been a valued crop.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

And only a Beastbidder would have enabled her to create chaos at his coronation with the fitches, gulls, midges, and rats.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

"Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof," he intoned in his resonant growl.

Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001