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title: קֶמַח — flour · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֶמַח (7058), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: flour. BDB 1906: flour, meal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֶמַח

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«קֶמַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flour** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 14 times · **Key:** 7058 · **BDB:** קֶ֫מַח

### Glosses

flour (11); of.flour (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flour [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7058/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

flour, meal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7058/#m2)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֶמַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7058/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 5:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.2/)

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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;

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[Isaiah 47:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/)

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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.

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