Fitches

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Concise Bible Dictionary:

1. kussemeth, “spelt,” a species of grain resembling wheat with shorn ears (Ezek. 4:99Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. (Ezekiel 4:9)). The same word is in Exodus 9:3232But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up. (Exodus 9:32) and Isaiah 25, translated RYE.
2. qetsach, “black cummin,” R. V. margin. This is doubtless the nigella sativa. Its small black seeds are aromatic, and are used as a condiment and a medicine. The prophet says they are beaten out with a rod (Isa. 28:25-2725When 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? 26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. (Isaiah 28:25‑27)).
Nigella Sativa