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 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
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
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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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,
- 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.”
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- קֶּ֔מַחkemachnoun · masculine singulartagged: flour
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.
