. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ies ( 16, cxlvii. 14, &c). There appear to be twoor three sorts of wheat at present grown in Pales-tine, the Trilicum vulgarc (var. hyhcrnum, the com-mon winter wheat), Trilicum. Spella (i. e. spelt; Rye ), and another variety of bearded wheatwhich appears to be the same as the Egyptianwheat, the Trilicum compositum. In the parableof the sower our Lord alludes to grains of wheatwhich in good ground produce a hundred-fold ( 8). The common wheat will sometimes pro-duce one hundred grains in the ear. Wheat is! reaped toward the end of
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ies ( 16, cxlvii. 14, &c). There appear to be twoor three sorts of wheat at present grown in Pales-tine, the Trilicum vulgarc (var. hyhcrnum, the com-mon winter wheat), Trilicum. Spella (i. e. spelt; Rye ), and another variety of bearded wheatwhich appears to be the same as the Egyptianwheat, the Trilicum compositum. In the parableof the sower our Lord alludes to grains of wheatwhich in good ground produce a hundred-fold ( 8). The common wheat will sometimes pro-duce one hundred grains in the ear. Wheat is! reaped toward the end of April, in May, and inJune, according to the differences of soil and posi-tion ; it was sown either broadcast, and then ploughedin or trampled- in by cattle (Is. xxxii. 20), or in rows,if we rightly understand Is. xxviii. 25, which seems \ WHE to imply that the seeds were planted apart in orderto insure larger and fuller ears. The wheat wasput into the ground in the winter, and some timeafter the barley ; in the Egyptian plague of hail,. Egyptian Wleat.—(Fbn.) consequently, the barley suffered, but the wheat hadnot appeared, and so escaped injury (Ex. ix. 32).Agriculture ; Barn ; Bread ; First-fruits ; Food ;Mill ; Mortar 1, &c. * Wheel (Heb. 6pha?i, galgal, &c.). For the com-mon uses of the wheel, see Cart ; Chariot ; Ha-math; Laver; Well, &c. In Ps. lxxxiii. 13 (), the A. V. has wheel for Heb. galgal, whichGesenius (and so Fiirst in substance) here makes = chaff, stubble, any thing driven round before awhirlwind. Thomson (ii. 357-8) suggests that itdenotes in Ps. 1. c. and Is. xvii. 13 (A. V. a rollingthing, margin thistledown ) the globe or sphere— a foot or more in diameter — formed by thebranches of the wild artichoke, which, becominglight and dry in autumn, is broken off from themain stem and carried by the wind over the plain,rolling and leaping hither and thither to the greatannoyance of the traveller and his horse. In someparts, as on the plain N. of Hamath
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