To grasp
קָמַץStrong’s H7061qamats (qa-mats)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qamats is the Hebrew word usually translated “take a handful”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:”
Meaning
- (Qal) to grasp, enclose with the hand, take a handful
How it's translated
- and he will take a handful 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 5:12Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.
- Numbers 5:26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
Hebrew dictionary
קָמַץ qamats · to grasp
(Qal) to grasp, enclose with the hand, take a handful
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grasp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GR'ASP, verb transitive
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms. We say, to grasp with the hand, or with the arms.
- To catch; to seize; to lay hold of; to take possession of.
All definitions and other forms of “grasp”
GR'ASP, verb intransitive
To catch or seize; to gripe.
- To struggle; to strive. [Not in use.]
- To encroach.
GR'ASP, noun
The gripe or seizure of the hand. This seems to be its proper sense; but it denotes also a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
- Possession; hold.
- Reach of the arms; and figuratively, the power of seizing.
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.