Black cumin (KJV 'fitches')

Fitches is the King James rendering of a plant most scholars now identify as black cumin or nigella, a small aromatic seed rather than a grain. Isaiah used the farmer’s care in sowing it — never scattered carelessly, always suited to the soil — as an image of God’s deliberate wisdom.

• “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?”

  Isaiah 28:25

• Bread

  354 verses

• Grain (KJV 'corn')

  94 verses

• Leaven

  72 verses

• Flour

  68 verses