H7054 קָמָה (qâmâh) kuw-maw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

standing grain

Strong's Definition

something that rises, i.e. a stalk of grain

Derivation: feminine of active participle of H6965 (קוּם);

KJV Usage: (standing) corn, grown up, stalk.

TWOT Reference: 1999b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) standing grain

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3717 G4719

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

קָמָה (qa.mah) — standing grain. standing grain

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

קָמָה (H7054)

noun f · קום

Crops

standing grain = grain as it is growing on the field and awaiting harvesting; it burns easily; people can pluck the ears and eat the grains

EXO 22:5 · DEU 16:9 · DEU 23:26 · DEU 23:26 · JDG 15:5 · JDG 15:5 · ISA 17:5 · HOS 8:7

¹ 2KI 19:26 · ISA 37:27 MT | HOTTP-C RSV NIV NRSV CEV קום "to rise, grow" | NJPS NJB REB GNT "east wind"

Graham S. Ogden

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

קָמָה n.f. standing grain base

Bible Occurrences (8)

22:6

16:9 23:25

15:5

19:26

17:5 37:27

8:7

Exodus 22:6

If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution....

Deuteronomy 16:9

You are to count off seven weeks [from]... [the time] you first put the sickle... to the standing grain....

Deuteronomy 23:25

When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

Judges 15:5

Then he lit... the torches and released [the foxes] into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain... and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

2 Kings 19:26

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Isaiah 17:5

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests... the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.