קֶמַח qemach

Hebrew word for “flour” · Strong’s H7058 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

flour, meal, meal flour

How it is translated

Glosses given for qemach in context, with how often each is used:

• flour 14

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 17 (3), Genesis 18 (1), Numbers 5 (1), Judges 6 (1), 1 Samuel 1 (1), 1 Samuel 28 (1), 2 Samuel 17 (1), 1 Kings 4 (1), 2 Kings 4 (1), 1 Chronicles 12 (1)

Forms

• קמח 11
• הקמח 2
• וקמח 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qemach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 5
• צַפַּחַת tsappachat “jar” 3
• כַּד kad “jar” 3
• אֵיפָה ephah “ephah” 3
• לוּשׁ lush “to knead” 2
• חָסֵר chaser “to lack” 2
• שְׂעֹרָה seorah “barley” 2
• מַצָּה matstsah “unleavened bread” 2
• יָצַק yatsaq “to pour” 2
• סֹלֶת solet “fine flour” 2
• מָהַר mahar “to hasten” 2
• יַיִן yayin “wine” 2

Key verses

The verses using qemach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 18:6 — And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
• Numbers 5:15 — Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil…
• 1 Samuel 1:24 — And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the…
• 2 Samuel 17:28 — Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
• 1 Kings 4:22 — And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
• 1 Kings 17:12 — And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two…
• 1 Kings 17:14 — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon…
• 1 Kings 17:16 — And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
• 2 Kings 4:41 — But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
• 1 Chronicles 12:40 — Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat,…
• Isaiah 47:2 — Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
• Hosea 8:7 — For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.