חטה, Gen. xxx, 14; Deut. viii, 8; σῖτος, Matt. xiii, 25; Luke
xvi, 7; 1 Cor. xv, 37; the principal and the most valuable kind of grain
for the service of man. (See _Barley_, and _Fitches_.) In Lev. ii,
directions are given for oblations, which in our translation are called
meat-offerings; but as meat means flesh, and all kinds of offerings
there specified, were made of wheat, it had been better to render it
“wheaten offerings.” Calmet has observed, that there were five kinds of
these, simple flour, oven cakes, cakes of the fire plate, cakes of the
frying pan, and green ears of corn. The word בר, translated _corn_, Gen.
xli, 35, and _wheat_ in Jer. xxiii, 28; Joel ii, 24; Amos v, 11, &c, is
undoubtedly the _burr_, or wild corn of the Arabs, mentioned by Forskal.
xvi, 7; 1 Cor. xv, 37; the principal and the most valuable kind of grain
for the service of man. (See _Barley_, and _Fitches_.) In Lev. ii,
directions are given for oblations, which in our translation are called
meat-offerings; but as meat means flesh, and all kinds of offerings
there specified, were made of wheat, it had been better to render it
“wheaten offerings.” Calmet has observed, that there were five kinds of
these, simple flour, oven cakes, cakes of the fire plate, cakes of the
frying pan, and green ears of corn. The word בר, translated _corn_, Gen.
xli, 35, and _wheat_ in Jer. xxiii, 28; Joel ii, 24; Amos v, 11, &c, is
undoubtedly the _burr_, or wild corn of the Arabs, mentioned by Forskal.