Roasted
קָלִיStrong’s H7039qali (qa-li)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qali is the Hebrew word usually translated “roasted grain”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”
Meaning
- Parched grain, roasted graina common food
How it's translated
- and roasted grain 3
- roasted grain 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- Leviticus 1
- Ruth 1
- 2 Samuel 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ruth 2:14And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
- 1 Samuel 17:17And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren.
- 1 Samuel 25:18Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
- 2 Samuel 17:28Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
Hebrew dictionary
קָלִי qali · roasted
1) parched grain, roasted grain 1a) a common food
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roasted” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROASTED, participle passive
Dressed by exposure to heat on a spit.
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.