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סֹ֫לֶת53 H5560
Prep-m | N-fsc  |  53× in 1 sense
Fine flour (semolina), the highest-quality wheat flour used in grain offerings, temple ritual, and elite cuisine.
A premium grade of finely milled wheat flour, more refined than ordinary qemach. In the sacrificial system solet is the required flour for nearly every grain offering described in Leviticus 2, mixed with oil and frankincense. Outside ritual contexts, it appears as a luxury food: Abraham served it to his divine visitors (Gen 18:6), Solomon's household consumed it daily (1 Kgs 5:2), and Ezekiel 16:13 lists it among Jerusalem's extravagant foods. During the Aramean siege of Samaria, a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel -- a famine price that underscored its usual costliness (2 Kgs 7:1). The Greek Septuagint renders it semidalis, the Latin simila, and the multilingual evidence consistently points to 'fine flour' across all target languages.

Senses
1. fine flour Finely ground wheat flour of superior quality, used predominantly in Levitical grain offerings (Lev 2:1-7; Num 28-29) and also in elite domestic hospitality. The multilingual glosses -- English fine flour, Spanish flor de harina, French fine farine, German fein Mehl -- all highlight the refined, premium character distinguishing solet from coarser qemach. Abraham's offering of solet to his angelic guests (Gen 18:6) and Ezekiel's catalogue of Jerusalem's luxuries (Ezek 16:13, 19) show that this flour connoted both sacred worthiness and social prestige. 53×
PLANTS_AGRICULTURE Plants Grain and Wheat
AR["دَقيقٍ", "دَقِيقًا", "دَقِيقٌ", "دَقِيقٍ", "سَمِيدًا", "سَمِيدٍ"]·ben["ময়দা", "মিহি-আটা", "মিহি-ময়দা", "সূক্ষ্ম-ময়দা"]·DE["fein-Mehl"]·EN["fine-flour"]·FR["fin-farine", "fin-flour", "fine-farine"]·heb["סולת"]·HI["अन्नबलि के लिए", "दशमांश", "मैदा", "मैदा-से"]·ID["tepung-halus"]·IT["fine-flour", "fior-di-farina", "fior-farina"]·jav["glepung", "glepung-alus", "glepung-halus"]·KO["고운-가루", "고운-가루-가", "고운-가루를", "고운-밀가루", "고운-밀가루를"]·PT["farinha-fina", "flor-de-farinha"]·RU["мука-лучшая", "мука-тонкая", "муки", "муки-тонкой", "мукой", "мукой-лучшей", "муку"]·ES["de-flor-de-harina", "flor-de-harina"]·SW["Slt", "unga-laini", "ya-unga-laini"]·TR["has-un", "ince-un"]·urd["میدا", "میدہ", "میدے-کا"]

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BDB / Lexicon Reference
סֹ֫לֶת53 n.f. Lv 2:5 (cf. on gender AlbrechtZAW xvi (1896), 106) fine flour (𝔊 σεμίδαλις, 𝔙 simila) (NH id.; Aramaic סוּלְתָּא; Arabic سُلْتٌ a kind of barley without husks Lane 1401; Assyrian sillatu, or šillatu, a kind of grain (?) Meissner-RostBAS iii. 361; also ṯulṯȧ, ṯuruti̥, flour, as loan-word in Egyptian, Bondi84 WMMAs. u. Eur. 101);—abs. ס׳ Gn 18:6 +, cstr. ס׳ Ex 29:2 +; sf. סָלְתָּהּ