RIE (the AV spelling of 'rye') occurs twice (Ex 9:32; Isa 28:25) in AV as rendering of kussemeth, which in Eze 4:9 is rendered 'fitches.' In all three passages RV has 'spelt,' Whatever kussemeth was, it was neither true rye, which is a cereal unknown in Palestine, nor spelt. See Fitches.
E. W. G. Masterman.
But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they were not come out into ear.
Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?
And thou, take unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou liest upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.