חִטָּה, v. חָנַט) [the clean, bright, cmp. פת נקיה, s. v. נָקִי,] wheat-grain, (collect.) wheat. Midr. Till. to Ps. II, 12; Cant. R. to VII, 3 מה ח׳ זו סדוקה as the wheat-grain is slit. Shebu. V, 3 אמר ח׳ if he says ḥittah (in the sing.). Ib. 38ᵃ אפי׳ ח׳ בכלל חטין even ḥittah means a quantity of wheat. Tosef. Ned. III, 7; Y. ib. VI, end, 40ᵃ חי׳ שאני וכ׳ if one vows, ‘I will not taste ḥittah (wheat-grains)’, contrad. to חִטִּין; a. fr.—Pl. חִטִּים, חִטִּין, חִי׳. Ib. Pes. II, 5. Ib. 35ᵃ כוסמין מין ח׳ spelt is a species of wheat; Men. 70ᵃ. Gen. R. s. 15 ח׳ היו ‘the tree of knowledge’ was wheat. Shebu. l. c.; a. fr.