. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ^ some writers identified with the herosh, do notexist in Syria or Palestine. [Cedar.] FITCHES {i. e. Vetches) ; the representativein the A. \. of the two Heb. words cussemeth andketzach. As to the former see Rye. Ketzach (PIVp: fiehdvBiov: gith) denotes with- oirt doubt the Nigella sativa, an herbaceous annualplant belonging to the natural oider Eanunculaceae,and sub-order Ilelleboreae, which grows in the Europe and in the N. of Africa. It was formerly FLAG li. -T/f^^ KigeUa snttva. cultivated in Palestine for the sake of its seeds,which are to this day u
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ^ some writers identified with the herosh, do notexist in Syria or Palestine. [Cedar.] FITCHES {i. e. Vetches) ; the representativein the A. \. of the two Heb. words cussemeth andketzach. As to the former see Rye. Ketzach (PIVp: fiehdvBiov: gith) denotes with- oirt doubt the Nigella sativa, an herbaceous annualplant belonging to the natural oider Eanunculaceae,and sub-order Ilelleboreae, which grows in the Europe and in the N. of Africa. It was formerly FLAG li. -T/f^^ KigeUa snttva. cultivated in Palestine for the sake of its seeds,which are to this day used in Eastern countries asa medicine and a condiment. This plant is men-tioned only in Is. xxviii. 25, 27, wheie especial re-ference is made to the mode of threshing it; notwith a threshing instrument (3liD, V-nn), but with a staff (HtSO), because the heavy-armedcylinders of the former implement would havecrushed the aromatic seeds of the Nigella. The(.If\dvdiov of Dioscorides (iii. 83, ed. Sprengel) is unquestionably the Nigella; both these teims havingreference to its black seeds, which, according to theabove-named author and Pliny (TV. //. xix. 8), weresometimes mixed with bread. The word gith is ofuncertain origin. It is used by Pliny {N. II. xx. 17 I,who says, Gith ex Graecis alii melanthion, aliimelaspermon voarnt. Ilautus also {lind. v. 2, 39)has the same word git: Os calet tibi! num gitfrigidefactas. Comp. Celsius [Hieroh. ii. 71). Besides the N. sativa. there is another species,the
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