H7058 קֶמַח (qemach) keh'-makh

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

flour

Strong's Definition

qemach keh'-makh From an unused root probably meaning to grind ; flour: - flour, meal. LXX related word(s) G224 aleuron G4585 semidalis

Derivation: from an unused root probably meaning to grind;

KJV Usage: flour, meal.

TWOT Reference: 2033a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) flour, meal, meal flour

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

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

G224 G4585

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

קֶ֫מַח (qe.mach) — flour. flour, meal, meal flour

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

קֶמַח (H7058)

noun m

Crops | ≈ סֹלֶת

flour, meal = flour made from ground grain kernels, ► used for baking bread, as ingredient for food, and as grain offering

GEN 18:6 · NUM 5:15 · JDG 6:19 · 1SA 1:24 · 1SA 28:24 · 2SA 17:28 · 1KI 5:2 · 1KI 17:12 · 1KI 17:14 · 1KI 17:16 · 2KI 4:41 · 1CH 12:41 · ISA 47:2 · HOS 8:7

Graham S. Ogden

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

קֶ֫מַח n.[m.] flour, meal base

Bible Occurrences (14)

18:6

5:15

6:19

1:24 28:24

17:28

4:22 17:12 17:14 17:16

4:41

12:40

47:2

8:7

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.

Numbers 5:15

then [he] is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil... over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

Judges 6:19

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat... and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth... in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

1 Samuel 1:24

Once she had weaned him, [Hannah] took [the boy] with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah... of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

1 Samuel 28:24

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

2 Samuel 17:28

[They brought] beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,...

1 Kings 4:22

Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

1 Kings 17:12

But she replied, As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread— only... a handful... of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare [a meal] for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.