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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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