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# חִנְטָה

Biblical Aramaic

**wheat** — used 2 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wheat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִנְטָה: n.f. wheat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wheat (v. BH חִטָּה, √ חָנַט; NöLCB, 1896, 703 cp. Egyptian chnt; Old Aramaic has חטה, pl. חטי, Plam. חטא Lzb 279 SAC 51);—pl. חִנְטִין Ezr 6:9; 7:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wheat(s) (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/#tree)

עַד־כְּסַף֮ כַּכְּרִ֣ין מְאָה֒ וְעַד־חִנְטִין֙ כֹּרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־חֲמַר֙ בַּתִּ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־בַּתִּ֥ין מְשַׁ֖ח מְאָ֑ה וּמְלַ֖ח דִּי־לָ֥א כְתָֽב׃

*Word for word:* up.to silver talents one.hundred and up.to wheat(s) cors one.hundred and up.to wine baths one.hundred and up.to baths oil one.hundred and salt which not \[is\].writing

*JPS 1917:* unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

[Ezra 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.9/#tree)

וּמָ֣ה חַשְׁחָ֡ן וּבְנֵ֣י תוֹרִ֣ין וְדִכְרִ֣ין וְאִמְּרִ֣ין ׀ לַעֲלָוָ֣ן ׀ לֶאֱלָ֪הּ שְׁמַיָּ֟א חִנְטִ֞ין מְלַ֣ח ׀ חֲמַ֣ר וּמְשַׁ֗ח כְּמֵאמַ֨ר כָּהֲנַיָּ֤א דִי־בִירֽוּשְׁלֶם֙ לֶהֱוֵ֨א מִתְיְהֵ֥ב לְהֹ֛ם י֥וֹם ׀ בְּי֖וֹם דִּי־לָ֥א שָׁלֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and whatever things.needed and young of.bulls and rams and lambs for burnt.offerings to the.God of the.heavens wheat(s) salt wine and oil according to.the.word of the.priests who \[are\].in Jerusalem it.will.be given to them day by day that not negligence

*JPS 1917:* And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5e0_5b0_5d8_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).