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# קֶצַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7100

**black cumin** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

black cumin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7100/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫צַח: n.m. black cumin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7100/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 28:27 black cumin (Nigella sativa Linn.; 𝔊 μελάνθιον, 𝔙 gith, id.; cf. TrNHB\> 444; Smith DB 2nd ed. Fitches Post Hastings DB Id.);—plant with small black acrid seeds, used as condiment: abs. ק׳ Is 28:25, 27(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: black cumin (3).

## In the verses

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

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?

[Isaiah 28:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.27/#tree)

כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בֶֽחָרוּץ֙ י֣וּדַשׁ קֶ֔צַח וְאוֹפַ֣ן עֲגָלָ֔ה עַל־כַּמֹּ֖ן יוּסָּ֑ב כִּ֧י בַמַּטֶּ֛ה יֵחָ֥בֶט קֶ֖צַח וְכַמֹּ֥ן בַּשָּֽׁבֶט׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not with.(the) threshing sledge it.is.threshed black.cumin and a.wheel of.a.cart over cumin it.is.turned (dm) with (the) staff it.is.beaten.out black.cumin and cumin with (the) rod

*JPS 1917:* For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7100.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7100/): 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).