קֶמַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7058

flour — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

flour tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫מַח: flour, meal tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] flour, meal;—abs. ק׳ 1 S 1:24 +, קָ֑מַח Is 47:2; cstr. קֶמַח Nu 5:15;—Ju 6:19 (material for unleavened cakes), 1 S 1:24; 28:24; 2 K 4:41; defined by סֹלֶת (q.v.) Gn 18:6, disting. from סֹלֶת 1 K 5:2; of barley (שְׂעֹרִים) Nu 5:15 (P), but 2 S 17:28 + חִטִּם, שְׂעֹרִים, קָלִי; + other articles of food 1 Ch 12:41 (van d. H. v 40); kept in a כַּד 1 K 17:12, 14, 16; made by grinding Is 47:2; צֶמַח בְּלִי יַעֲשֶׂה ק׳ Ho 8:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flour (11); of flour (3).

In the verses

1 Kings 5:2 · tree →

וַיְהִ֥י לֶֽחֶם־שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לְי֣וֹם אֶחָ֑ד שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים כֹּר֙ סֹ֔לֶת וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים כֹּ֖ר קָֽמַח׃

Word for word: and it.was the.food of.Solomon for a.day one thirty cor[s] of.fine.flour and sixty cor[s] of.flour

JPS 1917: And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;

Isaiah 47:2 · tree →

קְחִ֥י רֵחַ֖יִם וְטַ֣חֲנִי קָ֑מַח גַּלִּ֨י צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ חֶשְׂפִּי־שֹׁ֛בֶל גַּלִּי־שׁ֖וֹק עִבְרִ֥י נְהָרֽוֹת׃

Word for word: take a.hand-mill and grind flour uncover veil your strip.off a.skirt uncover a.leg pass.through rivers

JPS 1917: Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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