Wheat
WHEAT
Is the principal and most valuable kind of grain for the service of man, and is produced in almost every part of the world, Gen 30:14 Deu 8:8 Jdg 6:11 Mat 13:25 1Co 15:37 . It is often intended where the word corn is used. See CORN.The Egyptian wheat, Triticum Compositum, has six or seven ears on one head; so that it presented its usual appearance in this respect in Pharaoh’s dream, Gen 41:5-7 . The “meat-offerings” of the Mosaic service, Lev 2:1-16, were all made of wheaten flour.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Wheat
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Apart from the Gospels the only books in the NT which contain a reference to wheat are the Acts of the Apostles, St. Pauls First Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Apocalypse. The reference in Acts (Act 27:38) requires no comment. The operation there alluded to completed that begun in Act 27:18. In 1Co 15:37 it occurs in a simile introduced by St. Paul in his dissertation on the Resurrection. The general meaning of the passage is: Thou sowest not the body that shall appear-i.e. the bladed stem with ears of corn-but a naked grain. In Rev 6:6, the Voice fixes the maximum price for the main food-stuffs. The denarius was the daily wage (cf. Mat 20:2) and a of wheat the average daily allowance of the workman. Barley, being much cheaper, formed the main staple of food of the poor, and in NT times the proportionate value of these two different kinds of grain was probably as three to one as estimated here. The Greek measure was probably something under two pints. The proclamation is addressed to the nameless rider who represents Dearth, and is a prohibition of famine prices.
In the great dirge over the fall of Babylon in Revelation 18, reference is made to fine flour and wheat as two of the commodities for which the merchants of the earth are no longer able to find a market. The fine flour was no doubt imported for the wealthy. The word used, , is a . in the NT. The wheat supply of Rome came largely from Egypt and was conveyed by ship from Alexandria. The land of it origin is a matter of speculation, but Mesopotamia, the enormous wheat-harvests of which were in ancient times proverbial, probably has as good a claim as any other country.
The knowledge of agriculture certainly goes back to pre-Semitic times, for grind-stones belonging to that period have been discovered (cf. the present writers Latest Light on Bible Lands, London, 1913, p. 213). Several varieties of wheat are grown in Palestine, of which the most common is the Triticum spelta. Two other important varieties are the Triticum compositum and the Triticum hybernum. Wheat has been an article of export from very early times (cf. Eze 27:17, Act 12:20). The principal wheat-growing district is the plain of the auran.
See, further, Harvest, Sickle.
Literature.-H. B. Tristram. Natural History of the Bible10, London, 1911, pp. 488-493; R. B. Rackham, The Acts of the Apostles, do., 1901, p. 490; A. Robertson and A. Plummer, ICC , First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, Edinburgh, 1911, p. 369 f.; H. B. Swete, The Apocalypse of St. John 2, London, 1907, pp. 88, 234; The Speakers Commentary, iii. [do., 1881] 367; W. M. Thomson, The Land and the Book, 3 vols., do., 1881-86, passim; J. C. Geikie, The Holy Land and the Bible, do., 1903, p. 53; DCG ii. 821; SDB , p. 972; EBi iv. 5299 f.
P. S. P. Handcock.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Wheat
Wheat. The most important cereal grass mentioned in the Bible. This was the bearded variety belonging to the genus Triticum. It was cultivated in Bible lands from early times ( Gen 30:14). Egyptian wheat was the many-eare d variety called “mummy wheat.”This was the wheat of Pharaoh’s dream ( Gen 41:5-57). It was also depicted on Egyptian monuments.
Wheat was sown after barley in November or December. It was usually broadcast and then either plowed or trodden into the soil by oxen or other animals ( Isa 32:20). This grain was used for bread ( Exo 29:32), and was also eaten parched ( Lev 23:14; Rth 2:14). It was used in ceremonial offerings ( Lev 2:1; Lev 24:5-7) and as an article of commerce ( Eze 27:17; Act 27:38).
When corn is mentioned in the Bible, it refers to wheat, as corn was not known in Bible times ( Psa 72:16; Mat 12:1; Mar 4:28). Jesus compared His death to a grain of wheat which must die
to produce fruit ( Joh 12:24).
Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible
Wheat
(, chittidh [for, , chinth]; Chald. plur. , chintin; ), the well-known valuable cereal cultivated from the earliest times, occurs in various passages of Scripture (Heb. Gen 30:14; Exo 9:32; Exo 29:2; Exo 34:22; Deu 8:8; Deu 32:14; Jdg 6:11; Jdg 15:1; Rth 2:23; 1Sa 6:13; 1Sa 12:17 2Sa 4:6; 2Sa 17:28; 1Ki 4:11; 1Ch 21:20; 1Ch 21:23; 2Ch 2:10; 2Ch 2:15; 2Ch 27:5; Job 31:40; Psa 81:16; Psa 147:14; Son 7:2; Isa 28:25; Jer 12:13; Jer 41:8; Eze 4:9; Eze 27:17; Eze 45:13; Joe 1:11; Chald. Ezr 6:9; Ezr 7:22; Greek Mat 3:12; Mar 4:28 [corn]; Luk 3:17; Luk 16:7; Luk 22:31; Joh 12:24; Act 7:12 [corn]; Act 27:38; 1Co 15:37; Rev 6:6; Rev 18:13; also Jdt 3:3; Sir 39:26). In the A.V. the Heb. words bar ( or , Jer 23:28; Joe 2:24; Amo 5:11; Amo 8:5-6), dagan (, Num 18:12; Jer 31:12), riphoth (, Pro 27:22), are occasionally translated wheat; but there is no doubt that the proper name of this cereal, as distinguished from barley, spelt, etc., is chittah (; Chald. , chintin). As to the former Hebrew terms, see under CORN. . There can be no doubt that chittalh, by some written chittha, chefteth, cheteh, etc., is correctly translated wheat, from its close resemblance to the Arabic, as well to the names of wheat in other languages. Celsius says, , chittha, occultato in puncto dagesch, pro , chintha, dicitur ex usu Ebreeorum. This brings it still nearer to the Arabic name of wheat, which in Roman characters is variously written, hinteh, hinthe, henta, and by Pemplius, in his translation of Avicenna, hhintta; and under this name it is described by the Arabic authors on Materia Medica. As the Arabic ha is in many words converted into kha, it is evident that the Hebrew and Arabic names of wheat are the same, especially as the Hebrew has the guttural sound. Different derivations have been given of the word chittah by Celsius it is derived from , chanaf, protulit, produxit, fructuan, ex Son 2:13; or the Arabic chanat, rubuit, quod triticum rubello sit colore(Hierobot. 2, 113).
The translator of the Biblical Botany of Rosenmller justly observes that the similarity in sound between the Hebrew word chittah and the English wheat is obvious. Be it remembered that the ch here is identical in sound with theGaelic guttural, or the Spanish X. It is further remarkable that the Hebrew term is etynmologically cognate with the words for wheat used by every one of the Teutonic and Scandinavian nations (thus we have in Icelandic, hveiti; Danish, hvede; Swedish, hvete;Maeso-Goth. hvaite; German, Weizen); and that, in this instance, there is no resemblance between the Scandinavian and Teutonic terms, and the Greek, Latin, and Slavonic (for the Greek word is ; the Latin, frumentum or triticum; the Russian, psienitsa; Polish, psenica); and yet the general resemblance between the Slavonic, the Thracian, and the Gothic languages is so strong that no philologist now doubts their identity of origin (loc. cit. p. 75). Rosenmller further remarks that in Egypt and in Barbary kamich is the usual name for wheat (quoting Descrip. de l’Egypte, 19:45; Host, Account of Maroko and Fez, p. 309); and also that in Hebrew, , kemach, denotes the flour of wheat (Gen 18:6; Num 5:15). This, it is curious to observe, is not very unlike the Indian name of wheat, kunuk.
All these names indicate communication between the nations of antiquity, as well as point to a common origin of wheat. Thus in his Himalayan Botany, Dr. J. F. Boyle has stated: Wheat, having been one of the earliest- cultivated grains, is most probably of Asiatic origin, as no doubt Asia was the earliest-civilized as well as the first peopled country. It is known to the Arabs under the name of hinteh; to the Persians as qguindum; Hindfi, gahnih and kunuk. The species of barley cultivated in the plains of India, and known by the Hindau and Persian name juo, Arabic shalir, is Iloumd hexaerstichum. As both wheat and barley are cultivated in the plains of India in the winter months, where none of the species of these genera are indigenous, it is probable that both have been introduced into India from the north, that is, from the Persian, and perhaps from the Tartarian region, where these and other species of barley are most successfully and abundantly cultivated (p. 419). Different species of wheat were no doubt cultivated by the ancients. as Triticum compositum in Egypt, T. cestiuv. nu, T. hibernum in Syria, etc.; but both barley and wheat are too well known to require further illustration in this place.
Much has been written on the subject of the origin of wheat, and the question appears to be still undecided. It is said that the Triticum vulgare has been found wild in some parts of Persia and Siberia, apparently removed from the influence of cultivation (English Cyclop. s.v. Triticum). Again, from the experiments of M. Esprit Fabre of Agde, it would seem that the numerous varieties of cultivated wheat are merely improved transformations of Egilops. ovata (Journal of the Royal Agricult. Soc. No. 33, p. 167-180). M. Fabre’s experiments, however, have not been deemed conclusive by some botanists (see an interesting paper by the late Prof. Henfrey in No. 41 of the Journal quoted above). Egypt in ancient times was celebrated for the growth of its wheat. The best quality, according to Pliny (Nat. Hist. 18:7), was grown in the Thebaid; it was all bearded; and the same varieties, Wilkinson writes (Anc. Egypt. [ed. 1854], 2, 39), existed in ancient as in modern times, among which maybe mentioned the seven-eared quality described in Pharaoh’s dream (Gen 41:22). This is the so-called mummy-wheat, which, it has been said, has germinated after the lapse of thousands of years; but it is now known that the whole thing was a fraud. Babylonia was also noted for the excellence of its wheat and other cereals. In grain, says Herodotus (1, 193), it will yield commonly two hundredfold, and at its greatest production as much as three-hundredfold. The blades of the wheat and barley plants are often four fingers broad. But this is a great exaggeration (see also Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. 8:7). Modern writers, as Chesney and Rich, bear testimony to the great fertility of Mesopotamia. Syria and Palestine produced wheat of fine quality and in large quantities (Psa 147:14; Psa 81:16, etc.).
There appear to be two or three kinds of wheat at present grown in Palestine the Triticum vulgare (var.hibernum), the T. spelta, SEE RYE, and another variety of bearded wheat which appears to be the same as the Egyptian kind, the Teomipoz’ situm. In the parable of the sower, our Lord alludes to grains of wheat which in good ground produce a hundredfold (Mat 13:8). The return of a hundred for one, says Trench, is not unheard of in the East, though always mentioned as something extraordinary. Laborde says, There is to be found at Kerek a species of hundred wheat which justifies the text of the Bible against the charges of exaggeration of which it has been the object. The common Triticum vulgare will sometimes produce one hundred grains in the ear. Wheat is reaped towards the end of April, in. May, and in June, according to the differences of soil and position. It was sown either broadcast, and then ploughed in or trampled in by cattle (Isa 32:20), or in rows, if we rightly understand Isa 28:25, which seems to imply that the seeds were planted apart in order to insure larger and fuller ears. The wheat was put into the ground in the winter, and some time after the barley. In the Egyptian plague of hail, consequently, the barley suffered, but the wheat had not .appeared, and so escaped injury. Wheat was ground into flour. The finest qualities were expressed, by the term fat of kidneys of wheat ( , Deu 32:14). Unripe ears are sometimes cut off from the stalks, roasted in an oven, mashed and boiled, and eaten by the modern Egyptians (Sonnini, Travels). Rosenmller (Botany of the Bible, p. 80), with good reason, conjectures that this dish, which the Arabs callferik, is the same as the geres carnel ( ) of Lev 2:14 and 2Ki 4:42. The Heb. word kali ( Lev 2:14) denotes, it is probable, roasted ears of corn, still used as food in the East. An ear of corn was called shibboleth (), the word which betrayed the Ephraimites (Jdg 12:1; Jdg 12:6), who were unable to give the sound of sh. The curious expression in Pro 27:22, Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him, appears to point to the custom of mixing the grains of inferior cereals with wheat; the meaning will then be, Let a fool be ever so much in the company of wise men, yet he will continue a fool. Maurer (Comment. loc. cit.) simply explains the passage thus: Quomodocunque tractaveris stultum non patietur se emendari. SEE CEREALS.
Wheat was known to the Israelites in Egypt (Exo 9:32), and on returning to Canaan they no doubt found it still cultivated as in the days of Reuben (Gen 30:14). Most probably they were the same sorts which were used in both countries; but there were only a few districts of Palestine, such as the plain of Jezreel, which could compete with that magnificent carse, the delta of Egypt, the finest corn country of the ancient world. At present the wheat crops of Palestine are very poor and light, and would disgust an English farmer. One may ride and walk through the standing corn without the slightest objection made or harm done. No wonder it is thin, when white crops are raised from the same soil year after year, and no sort of manure put into the ground(Tristram, Travels, p. 591). SEE AGRICULTURE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Wheat
one of the earliest cultivated grains. It bore the Hebrew name _hittah_, and was extensively cultivated in Palestine. There are various species of wheat. That which Pharaoh saw in his dream was the Triticum compositum, which bears several ears upon one stalk (Gen. 41:5). The “fat of the kidneys of wheat” (Deut. 32:14), and the “finest of the wheat” (Ps. 81:16; 147:14), denote the best of the kind. It was exported from Palestine in great quantities (1 Kings 5:11; Ezek. 27:17; Acts 12:20).
Parched grains of wheat were used for food in Palestine (Ruth 2:14; 1 Sam. 17:17; 2 Sam. 17:28). The disciples, under the sanction of the Mosaic law (Deut. 23:25), plucked ears of corn, and rubbing them in their hands, ate the grain unroasted (Matt. 12:1; Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). Before any of the wheat-harvest, however, could be eaten, the first-fruits had to be presented before the Lord (Lev. 23:14).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Wheat
The wheat harvest (usually in the end of May) in Palestine is mentioned as early as Reuben (Gen 30:14), compare Isaac’s hundred fold increase (Gen 26:12). The crops are now thin and light, no manure being used and the same grain grown on the same soil year by year. Three varieties are grown, all bearded. The sickle was in use for cutting grain as well as sometimes for the vintage (Rev 14:18-19). Generally, the ears only were cut off, the long straw being left in the ground.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Wheat
WHEAT.Of all the cereals, wheat is at once the most valuable and the most widely distributed. It has been cultivated from very early times, as is proved by the finding of wheat grains in some of the oldest Egyptian tombs. In what land it had its-origin is unknown, but de Candolle assigns the honour to Mesopotamia. In Palestine its cultivation dates back to a time prior to the Hebrew conquest (Deu 8:8). How long before cannot be said, but it was probably a considerable time. In the OT the most common name for it is , which the LXX Septuagint renders in most instances by (Gen 30:14, Exo 9:32 etc.) but sometimes by (Jdg 6:11, Eze 27:17), and the Vulgate by triticum and, in a few cases, frumentum. On the other hand, is used also to render (Jer 23:28, Joe 2:24), (Num 18:12, Jer 31:12), (Jos 5:11), and (Gen 42:2-3). In the NT this is the term invariably employed (Mat 3:12, Luk 16:7 etc.), and in Authorized and Revised Versions it is nearly always translated wheat. Like the Heb. , however, is really a general term for the cereals. But we can readily understand how, just as in Scotland the word corn has become practically the equivalent of oats, so in Palestine should come to mean wheat. For it was the most common and the most valued of the staple products of the country, and was, as it still is, its principal breadstuff. Several varieties of wheat are grown in Palestine. Tristram (Nat. Hist. of Bible, 492) mentions specially three of them: Triticum compositum, T. spelta (which is the most common of all), and T. hybernum.
Wheat is sown about November, shortly after the first rains have softened the soil and rendered it fit for ploughing. It is ripe in May or June, but the time of harvest varies for the different districts, being earliest in the low-lying Jordan Valley, and latest in the Lebanons. The processes of reaping, threshing, winnowing, and sifting have already been described (see Agriculture). The return yielded by wheat varies greatly. Thirty-fold is, according to Tristram, reckoned a good return (op. cit. 489). But that applies to Palestine as it is now. The sixty-fold or hundred-fold of the parable (Mat 13:8 ||) might well have been obtained in the days of its former prosperity. Wheat was an article of export from very early days (Eze 27:17, cf. Act 12:20), and even to this day considerable quantities are exported by way of Haifa and Beirut. It is obtained mainly from the Haurn.
Hugh Duncan.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Wheat
WHEAT (chitth, Gen 30:14, Exo 34:22 etc.; sitos, Mat 3:12; Mat 13:25; Mat 13:29-30, Luk 3:17; Luk 16:7; Luk 22:31 etc.).The wheat of Palestine is mostly of the bearded varieties; it is not only eaten as bread, but also boiled, unground, to make the peasants dish burghul, which is in turn pounded with meat in a mortar (cf. Pro 27:22) to make the festive delicacy kibbeh. Wheat is grown all over the valleys and plains of W. Palestine, though to a less extent than barley, but it is cultivated in the largest quantities in the Nuqra or plain of the Hauran, one of the finest grain-growing countries in the world. The wheat harvest occurs from April to June; its time was looked upon as one of the divisions of the year (Exo 34:22, Jdg 15:1, 1Sa 12:17). The expressions fat of wheat (Psa 81:16 mg., 147:14 mg.) and the fat of kidneys of wheat (Deu 32:14) refer to the finest flour of wheat.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Wheat
hwet ((1) , hittah, the specific word for wheat (Gen 30:14; Exo 34:22, etc.), with , puros (Judith 3:3; Sirach 39:26); (2) , bar, or , bar (Jer 23:28; Joe 2:24; Amo 5:11; Amo 8:6); in other passages translated grain or corn; (3) , stos (Mat 3:12; Mat 13:25, Mat 13:29, Mat 13:30; Luk 3:17; Luk 16:7; Luk 22:31, etc.) (for other words translated occasionally wheat in the King James Version see CORN; FOOD)): Wheat, usually the bearded variety, is cultivated all over Palestine, though less so than barley. The great plain of the Hauran is a vast expanse of wheat fields in the spring; considerable quantities are exported via Beirut, Haifa, and Gaza. The wheat harvest was in olden times one of the regular divisions of the year (Exo 34:22; Jdg 15:1; 1Sa 12:17); it follows the barley harvest (Exo 9:31, Exo 9:32), occurring in April, May or June, according to the altitude.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Wheat
Fig. 342Egyptian WheatTriticum compositum
Wheat occurs in various passages of Scripture, and there can be no doubt that the word so rendered has this signification.
Wheat having been one of the earliest cultivated grains, is most probably of Asiatic origin, as no doubt Asia was the earliest civilized, as well as the first peopled country. As both wheat and barley are cultivated in the plains of India in the winter months, where none of the species of these genera are indigenous, it is probable that both have been introduced into India from the north, that is, from the Persian, and perhaps from the Tartarian region, where these and other species of barley are most successfully and abundantly cultivated. Different species of wheat were no doubt cultivated by the ancients; but both barley and wheat are too well known to require further illustration in this place.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Wheat
This cereal was extensively grown in Palestine; the harvest was in May and June. In the parable it is used by the Lord as representing the children of the kingdom, the fruit of the good seed that He was sowing on the earth, in contrast to the tares, or darnel, which Satan secretly sowed among the good seed.
The Lord Himself, being the second Man ‘out of heaven,’ is compared to the grain of wheat that must have remained alone unless it had died, but which in dying would bring forth much fruit. This clearly shows that there was no union of Christ and natural man by His incarnation alone, and that through the death of Christ the fruit produced by His resurrection is of the same order as Christ Himself. Mat 13:25-30; Joh 12:24; 1Co 15:48-49.
There are three or four varieties of Triticum grown in Palestine.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Wheat
General references
Rev 6:6
Grown in Palestine
1Ki 5:11; Psa 81:16; Psa 147:14
Offerings of
Num 18:12
Prophecy of the sale of a measure of, for a penny
Rev 6:6
Parables of
Mat 13:25; Luk 16:7
Winnowing of
Mat 3:12; Luk 3:17
Ground in a mortar
Pro 27:22
Chaff of
Jer 23:28; Mat 3:12; Luk 3:17
Figurative:
– Of God’s mercy
Psa 81:16; Psa 147:14
– Of self-righteousness
Jer 12:13
– Growth of, figurative of vicarious death
Joh 12:24
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Wheat
Wheat. In Palestine this most important of all grains was sown after barleylate in the fall. It was not only scattered broadcast and then ploughed, harrowed, or trodden in, Isa 32:20, but it seems, according to the Hebrew of Isa 28:25, to have been planted in rows or drills, as it certainly often is at present in Syria, wheat is still produced for export east of the Jordan. Eze 27:17; Deu 8:8. In the days of Jacob this grain was already so much cultivated in Mesopotamia that “wheat harvest” denoted a well-known season. Gen 30:14. The many-eared variety, or mummy wheat, is referred to in Pharaoh’s dream. Gen 41:22. In the A. V. and R. V. this grain is often mentioned under the general name of “corn.”
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Wheat
Wheat. The well-known valuable cereal, cultivated from the earliest times, is first mentioned in (Gen 30:14, in the account of Jacob’s sojourn with Laban in Mesopotamia. Egypt, in ancient times, was celebrated for the growth of its wheat; the best quality was all bearded; and the same varieties existed in ancient as in modern times, among which may be mentioned the seven-eared quality described in Pharaoh’s dream. Gen 41:22. Babylonia was also noted for the excellence of its wheat and other cereals. Syria and Palestine produced wheat of fine quality and in large quantities. Psa 81:16; Psa 147:14; etc.
There appear to be two or three kinds of wheat at present grown in Palestine, the Triticum vulgare, the Triticum spelta, and another variety of bearded wheat which appears to be the same as the Egyptian kind, the Triticum compositum. In the parable of the sower our Lord alludes to grains of wheat which in good ground produce a hundred-fold. Mat 13:8. The common Triticum vulgare will sometimes produce one hundred grains in the ear.
Wheat is reaped toward the end of April, in May, and in June, according to the differences of soil and position; it was sown either broadcast and then ploughed in or trampled in by cattle, Isa 32:20 or in rows, if we rightly understand Isa 28:25 which seems to imply that the seeds were planted apart in order to insure larger and fuller ears. The wheat was put into the ground in the winter, and some time after the barley; in the Egyptian plague of hail, consequently, the barley suffered, but the wheat had not appeared, and so escaped injury.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
WHEAT
(1) A Grain
Exo 9:32; Deu 32:14; Jdg 6:11; 1Ki 5:11; Ezr 7:22
Joh 12:24; Act 27:38
(2) The Righteous Compared to
Mat 3:12; Mat 13:30; Luk 3:17
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible
Wheat
* For WHEAT see CORN
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Wheat
, Gen 30:14; Deu 8:8; , Mat 13:25; Luk 16:7; 1Co 15:37; the principal and the most valuable kind of grain for the service of man. (See Barley, and See Fitches.) In Leviticus 2, directions are given for oblations, which in our translation are called meat-offerings; but as meat means flesh, and all kinds of offerings there specified, were made of wheat, it had been better to render it wheaten offerings. Calmet has observed, that there were five kinds of these, simple flour, oven cakes, cakes of the fire plate, cakes of the frying pan, and green ears of corn. The word , translated corn, Gen 41:35, and wheat in Jer 23:28; Joe 2:24; Amo 5:11, &c, is undoubtedly the burr, or wild corn of the Arabs, mentioned by Forskal.
Fuente: Biblical and Theological Dictionary
Wheat
Psa 81:16 (c) We may learn from this that those who hearken to the Lord and seek to obey His Word may expect to receive GOD’s richest blessings that will make them strong, able and happy Christian servants. (See also Psa 147:14).
Jer 23:28 (a) The wheat in this case represents the Word of GOD, while the chaff represents the ideas, notions and dreams of men.
Mat 3:12 (a) Our Lord JESUS, as well as others, used “wheat” as a type of Christians, believers in the Lord JESUS. The chaff represents hypocrites, who are raised among the wheat, and close to the wheat, but never become “wheat.” In the final day, GOD takes the Christians (the wheat) into His home in glory, while the unsaved are shut out. (See also Luk 3:17).
Mat 13:25 (a) The grain in this verse represents the Word of GOD as the wheat, and false doctrines and false writings as the tares. There are always those in every community who would bring evil doctrines in among GOD’s people in order to hinder the salvation of souls. The field in which these mixed seeds are sown is the world. In GOD’s true church, only the precious Word of GOD is preached and taught.
Joh 12:24 (a) This grain is the Lord JESUS Himself. He was cut down and was buried, but came forth from the tomb to produce a tremendous crop of believers for eternity.