קֶצַח
qetsach · H7100 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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nutmeg flower or black cummin
A cultivated plant about 30 cm high with lacy leaves like dill or carrot and a greenish-blue five-petaled flower, whose seedpod holds many round, black, sharp-smelling seeds used in cooking
ExamplesIsaiah 28:25 Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter cumin And plant wheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its area?
Isaiah 28:27 For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over cumin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a club.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דּוּשׁto tread out 1
- חָבַטto beat 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פּוּץto be scattered 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- כַּמֹּן kammôn · H3646 · cummin
- Another small-seeded spice crop that appears in parallel construction with קֶצַח in Isaiah 28:25, 27; both are treated similarly in threshing and are semantically close as aromatic seed spices used for seasoning
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Crops001003001003002
- The word names a cultivated spice plant (fitches/dill), directly illustrated by the farmer who sows dill and threshes it with a rod rather than a heavy sledge (Isaiah 28:25, 27).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7100. qetsach קֶ֫צַח noun masculineIsa 28:27 black cumin (Nigella sativa Linn.; ᵐ5…
קֶ֫צַח noun masculineIsa 28:27 black cumin (Nigella sativa Linn.; ᵐ5 μελάνθιον, ᵑ9, gith id.; compare TrNHB 444; Smith DB 2nd ed. FITCHES PostHastings DB ID.); — plant with small black acrid seeds, used as condiment: absolute ׳ק Isa 28:25, Isa 28:27 (twice in verse).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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