קֶ֫מַח
qe.machflourHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine14 occurrences10 books14 verses
Definition
from an unused root probably meaning to grind; flour
Traditional renderings: flour, meal.
Traditional renderings: flour, meal.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders קֶ֫מַח:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
14 total
- Genesis 18:6קֶ֣מַח · flourSo Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
- Numbers 5:15קֶ֣מַח · flour…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 6:19קֶ֣מַח · of flourSo 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 1:24קֶ֙מַח֙ · of flourOnce 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 28:24קֶ֣מַח · flourThe 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 17:28וְקֶ֣מַח · flourThey brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
- 1 Kings 4:22קָֽמַח׃ · of mealSolomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 1 Kings 17:12קֶ֙מַח֙ · of flourBut 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.”
- 1 Kings 17:14הַקֶּ֙מַח֙ · of flour…for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”
- 1 Kings 17:16הַקֶּ֙מַח֙ · of flourThe jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.
- 2 Kings 4:41קֶ֔מַח · some flourThen Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40קֶ֠מַח · of flourAnd their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
- Isaiah 47:2קָ֑מַח · flourTake millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- Hosea 8:7קֶּ֔מַח · flourFor 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.