2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fitch \Fitch\ (?; 224), n.; pl {Fitches}. [See {Vetch}.]
1. (Bot.) A vetch. [Obs.]
2. pl (Bot.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the
Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah
xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of
{Nigella sativa}, still used as a flavoring in the East.
In Ezekiel iv 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Fitches
(Isa. 28:25, 27), the rendering of the Hebrew _ketsah_, "without
doubt the Nigella sativa, a small annual of the order
Ranunculacece, which grows wild in the Mediterranean countries,
and is cultivated in Egypt and Syria for its seed." It is
rendered in margin of the Revised Version "black cummin." The
seeds are used as a condiment.
In Ezek. 4:9 this word is the rendering of the Hebrew
_kussemeth_ (incorrectly rendered rye" in the Authorized
Version of Ex 9:32 and Isa. 28:25, but spelt" in the Revised
Version). The reading fitches" here is an error; it should be
"spelt."
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