1. fine flour — Finely ground wheat flour (semolina), the highest quality flour used predominantly in grain offerings and temple rituals, but also in elite domestic food preparation. All three clusters represent the same noun סֹלֶת with different prepositional framing (bare noun, 'from the fine flour of,' construct state). Cross-lingual evidence confirms unified meaning: Arabic دَقِيق (daqiq, fine flour) and سَمِيد (samid, semolina), Swahili 'unga laini' (fine flour) and 'unga mzuri' (good flour), Hindi मैदा (maida, refined wheat flour), Korean 고운 가루 (goun garu, fine powder) and 고운 밀가루 (goun milgaru, fine wheat flour), Spanish 'flor de harina' (flower of flour, finest grade). Heavily concentrated in Leviticus and Numbers for meal offerings (Lev 2:1-7, 5:11, 6:15,20, 7:12, 14:10,21, 23:13,17, 24:5; Num 6:15, 7:13-79, 8:8, 15:4-9, 28-29), with some narrative uses (Gen 18:6; 1 Kgs 4:22; 2 Kgs 7:1,16,18; Ezek 16:13,19, 46:14). 53×
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"]
Senses
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…