qe.tsach denotes a crop that is scattered for sowing and beaten with a rod in Isaiah’s farming comparison.

The term denotes a crop in an agricultural setting: it is scattered when a field is prepared and later beaten with a rod rather than threshed by heavier means.

1. A crop sown and beaten in farming · dominant

   In Isaiah 28:25, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in the sequence of scattering and sowing crops after the field has been leveled; the APB renders the clause “scatter dill.” In Isaiah 28:27, the same form occurs twice in the contrast between threshing methods, and the APB renders it as a crop beaten “with a rod.”

   Isaiah 28:25Isaiah 28:27

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “dill” in both cited verses, first in sowing and then in beating the crop with a rod. This rendering is confirmed by the surrounding agricultural clauses rather than treated as a separate lexical sense.