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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fitch \Fitch\ (?; 224), n.; pl. {Fitches}. [See {Vetch}.]
     1. (Bot.) A vetch. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. pl. (Bot.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the
        Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah


        xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of
        {Nigella sativa}, still used as a flavoring in the East.
        In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
        [1913 Webster]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Fitches
     (Isa. 28:25, 27), the rendering of the Hebrew _ketsah_, "without
     doubt the Nigella sativa, a small annual of the order
     Ranunculacece, which grows wild in the Mediterranean countries,
     and is cultivated in Egypt and Syria for its seed." It is
     rendered in margin of the Revised Version "black cummin." The
     seeds are used as a condiment.
     
       In Ezek. 4:9 this word is the rendering of the Hebrew
     _kussemeth_ (incorrectly rendered "rye" in the Authorized
     Version of Ex. 9:32 and Isa. 28:25, but "spelt" in the Revised
     Version). The reading "fitches" here is an error; it should be
     "spelt."
     

















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