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fitches

Meaning of “fitches”

Vetches; a kind of seed-bearing plant.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
4 occurrences3 verses2 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Isaiah 28:25

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “fitches”

KJV PCE
Isaiah 28:25
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 28:25 · retained source text

When hee hath made plaine the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principall wheate, and the appointed barly and the rye in their place?

1611 marginal noteOr, the wheat in the principall place and barley in the appointed place.

1611 marginal noteOr, spelt.

1611 marginal noteHeb. border.

Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 28:27 · retained source text

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheele turned about vpon the cummin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe, and the cummin with a rodde.

Ezekiel 4:9
¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 4:9 · retained source text

¶ Take thou also vnto thee wheat, and barley, and beanes, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessell, and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the dayes that thou shalt lie vpon thy side; three hundreth and ninetie dayes shalt thou eate thereof.

1611 marginal noteOr, spelt.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Vetches, a kind of seed-bearing plant.

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