To roast
קָלָהStrong’s H7033qalah (qa-lah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “roasted”, “burning” and “roasted them”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.”
Meaning
- To roast, parch(Qal) to roast · (Niphal)
How it's translated
- roasted 1
- and roasted 1
- burning 1
- he roasted them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Joshua 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 5:11And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
- Psalms 38:7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- Jeremiah 29:22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
Hebrew dictionary
קָלָה qalah · to roast
1) to roast, parch 1a) (Qal) to roast 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be burned 1b2) burning (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROAST, verb transitive
[If the verb is from the noun, the sense is to dress or cook on a gridiron or grate, and rist, rost, coincide in elements with Latin rastellum, a rake. If the verb is the root, the sense probably is to contract or crisp, or to throw or agitate, hence to make rough.]
- To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit.
- To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs.
- To heat to excess; to heat violently.
- To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee.
All definitions and other forms of “roast”
- In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.
- In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely.
ROAST, noun
That which is roasted.
ROAST, adjective
[for roasted.]
Roasted; as roast beef.
ROAST, noun
In the phrase, to rule the roast this word is a corrupt pronunciation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.