The word in Scripture

Wheat in the Bible

The word wheat appears 51 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Wheat is the good grain gathered into God's barn. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What wheat means in the Bible

Wheat is the good grain gathered into God's barn.

Where the word wheat appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word wheat appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.”Psalms 81:16

“He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.”Psalms 147:14

“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”Proverbs 27:22

“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

“But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.”Matthew 13:29

“And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:”Luke 22:31

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”John 12:24

“And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”Revelation 6:6