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title: קֹמֶץ — closed hand · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֹמֶץ (7062), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: closed hand. BDB 1906: closed hand, fist. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֹמֶץ

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«קֹמֶץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **closed hand** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 7062 · **BDB:** קֹ֫מֶץ

### Glosses

his.handful (2); handful (1); handfuls (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

closed hand [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7062/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

closed hand, fist [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7062/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] closed hand, fist;—sf. מְלֹא קֻמְצוֹ his fist-full Lv 2:2; 5:12; take up בְּק׳ 6:8 in his fist (all P); pl. לִקְמָצִים Gn 41:47 the earth yielded by handfuls (i.e. abundantly; E, according to most; P, Ball Holz, who questions text).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֹמֶץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7062/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 41:47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.47/)

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וַתַּ֣עַשׂ הָאָ֔רֶץ בְּשֶׁ֖בַע שְׁנֵ֣י הַשָּׂבָ֑ע לִקְמָצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.produced the land in seven the.years of.(the) plenty to handfuls

*JPS 1917:* And in the seven years of plenty the earth brought forth in heaps.

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[Leviticus 5:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.12/)

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וֶהֱבִיאָהּ֮ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵן֒ וְקָמַ֣ץ הַכֹּהֵ֣ן ׀ מִ֠מֶּנָּה מְל֨וֹא קֻמְצ֜וֹ אֶת־אַזְכָּרָתָה֙ וְהִקְטִ֣יר הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָה עַ֖ל אִשֵּׁ֣י יְהוָ֑ה חַטָּ֖את הִֽוא׃

*Word for word:* and he will.bring.it to the priest and he.will.take.a.handful the priest from it the.fullness his.handful his (et) offering its.memorial and he.will.make.\[it\].smoke to the altar on the.fire.offerings of.Yahweh \[is\].a.sin.offering it

*JPS 1917:* And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke on the altar, upon the offerings of the LORD made by fire; it is a sin-offering.

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