Strong’s H3698 · Hebrew

כֻּסֶּמֶת
kuççemeth
koos-seh'-meth

Definition

spelt (from its bristliness as if just shorn)

Etymology

from H3697 (כָּסַם);

Where the KJV renders it

  • fitches
  • rie

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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