Rye
GRAIN
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 2 verses (KJV)
Grain
Description
Rye appears just twice in the King James Version — spared, along with wheat, from Egypt’s plague of hail because both crops were still too young to be beaten down, and later named by Isaiah among the grains a farmer sows in their proper place. Most translators today think the Hebrew word actually describes spelt, an ancient wheat relative, rather than the rye grown in northern climates.
Key verses
“But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.”
Exodus 9:32
Fun fact
Modern rye is a cold-climate crop rarely grown in the ancient Near East, which is why most scholars now render this Hebrew word as ‘spelt’ instead.
All 2 referencesshow
- Exodus 9:32
- Isaiah 28:25