Isaiah 28:28

Bread corn -Hebrew,לחםlechem- ‘Bread.’ But the word evidently denotes the material from which bread is made. The word is used in the same sense inIsaiah 30:23. Is bruised -That is, is more severely bruised than the dill and the cummin; it is pressed and crushed by passing over it the sledge, or the wain with serrated wheels. The wordדקקdâqaqmeans often to break in pieces; to make small or fine. It is, however, applied to threshing, as consisting in beating, or crushing (Isaiah 41:15: ‘Thou threshest the mountains, and beatest them small’ -ותדקvetâdoq.