Is the principal and most valuable kind of grain for the service of man, and is produced in almost every part of the world, Ge 30:14De 8:8Jud 6:11Mt 13:251Co 15:37. It is often intended where the word corn is used. SeeCORN.
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, Ge 41:5-7. The "meat-offerings" of the Mosaic service, Le 2:1-16, were all made of wheaten flour.