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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7058

קֶמַח

qemachkeh'-makh

flour

14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7058is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 9
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7058

flour

The King James renders it: flour, meal.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

qemach is rendered "flour". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Four of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:6So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
  • The Greek text spells it nine different ways.

The first use

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

Genesis 18:6קֶ֣מַח

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's fourteen uses are in 1 Kings.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • flour9
  • flour of2
  • the flour2
  • and flour1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 14, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

9 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • קֶ֣מַח4
  • הַקֶּ֙מַח֙2
  • קֶ֙מַח֙2
  • וְקֶ֣מַח1
  • קֶ֔מַח1
  • קֶ֠מַח1
  • קֶּ֔מַח1
  • קָ֑מַח1
  • קָֽמַח׃1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular9HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa

Genesis

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

    Genesis 18:6

    • קֶ֣מַחkemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour

Numbers

one use
  • 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.

    Numbers 5:15

    • קֶ֣מַחkemachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: flour of

Judges

one use
  • 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.

    Judges 6:19

    • קֶ֣מַחkemachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: flour of

1 Samuel

two uses
  • 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 1:24

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

    1 Samuel 28:24

    • קֶ֣מַחkemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour

2 Samuel

one use
  • They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

    2 Samuel 17:28

    • וְקֶ֣מַחvekemachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and flour

1 Kings

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

    1 Kings 4:22

    • קָֽמַח׃kamachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour
  • 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.”

    1 Kings 17:12

    • קֶ֙מַח֙kemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: 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 17:14

    • הַקֶּ֙מַח֙hakemachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flour
  • The 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.

    1 Kings 17:16

    • הַקֶּ֙מַח֙hakemachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flour

2 Kings

one use
  • Then 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.

    2 Kings 4:41

    • קֶ֔מַחkemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour

1 Chronicles

one use
  • And 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.

    1 Chronicles 12:40

    • קֶ֠מַחkemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour

Isaiah

one use
  • Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

    Isaiah 47:2

    • קָ֑מַחkamachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour

Hosea

one use
  • For 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.

    Hosea 8:7

    • קֶּ֔מַחkemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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