Flour
קֶ֫מַחStrong’s H7058qemach (qe-mach)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qemach is the Hebrew word usually translated “flour” and “flour of”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.”
Meaning
- Flour, meal, meal flour
How it's translated
- flour 11
- flour of 2
- and flour 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 4
- 1 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 5:15Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
- Judges 6:19And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
- 1 Samuel 1:24And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
- 1 Samuel 28:24And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
- 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,
- 1 Kings 4:22And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫מַח qemach · flour
flour, meal, meal flour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flour” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLOUR, noun
[originally flower; Latin flos, floris, from floreo, to flourish.]
All definitions and other forms of “flour”
FLOUR, verb transitive
- To grind and bolt; to convert into flour Wheat used formerly to be sent to market; but now great quantities of it are floured in the interior country.
- To sprinkle with flour
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.