Exodus 9:32
32But the wheat and the spelt ▼▼ The word כֻּסֶּמֶת (
kussemet) is translated “spelt”; the word occurs only here and in
Isa 28:25 and
Ezek 4:9. Spelt is a grain closely allied to wheat. Other suggestions have been brought forward from the study of Egyptian crops (see a brief summary in W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,”
EBC 2:363–64).
were not struck, for they are later crops.) ▼▼ Heb “for they are late.”