H7058 H7058
Flour or meal; ground grain used for baking bread, preparing offerings, and daily sustenance.
Denotes flour or meal, the ground cereal product fundamental to Israelite diet and worship. Distinguished from the finer 'choice flour' (סֹלֶת) in Solomon's provisions (1 Kgs 4:22), this is the common household staple kept in a jar — as in the widow of Zarephath's dwindling supply that miraculously endured (1 Kgs 17:12, 14, 16). It appears in offering contexts (Num 5:15, barley flour for the jealousy offering) and everyday cooking (Judg 6:19; 1 Sam 28:24). Hosea uses it metaphorically: Israel's stalk 'yields no flour' (Hos 8:7), a vivid image of fruitless national policy. Isaiah 47:2 pictures Babylon grinding flour at the millstone as a sign of humiliation.
Senses
1. flour, meal — Flour or meal (קֶמַח), the ordinary ground grain product used in daily bread-making and certain ritual offerings. Multilingual evidence is strikingly uniform — Spanish 'harina,' French 'farine,' German 'Mehl' — all pointing to generic cereal flour without further specification. It is coarser than סֹלֶת (fine flour) as shown by their pairing in 1 Kgs 4:22. Key narrative appearances include Gideon's unleavened cakes (Judg 6:19), the widow's jar at Zarephath (1 Kgs 17:12–16), and Elisha's purification of poisoned stew (2 Kgs 4:41). Hosea 8:7 deploys it figuratively for productive yield. 14×
AR["ال-دَّقيقِ", "دَقيقًا", "دَقيقٍ", "دَقِيقًا", "دَقِيقٍ", "دَقِيقَ", "وَ-دَقيقًا"]·ben["আটা", "এবং-ময়দা", "কোর", "ময়দা", "ময়দার", "শস্য"]·DE["Mehl", "Mehl-von", "[קמח]", "der-Mehl", "und-Mehl"]·EN["and-flour", "flour", "flour-of", "meal", "the-flour"]·FR["[קמח]", "et-farine", "farine", "flour-de", "le-farine"]·heb["ה-קמח", "ו-קמח", "קמח"]·HI["अअत", "आटा", "आटा-ה", "और-आटा"]·ID["dan-tepung", "tepung"]·IT["[קמח]", "e-farina", "farina", "farina-di", "flour", "il-farina"]·jav["glepung", "lan-glepung", "menawi", "tepung"]·KO["가루", "가루를", "고운-밀가루", "그-가루", "그리고-밀가루와", "밀가루", "밀가루로", "밀가루를"]·PT["a-farinha", "e-farinha", "farinha", "farinha-de"]·RU["-муки", "и-муку", "муки", "муку"]·ES["de-harina", "harina", "harina-de", "la-harina", "y-harina"]·SW["Kmh", "na-unga", "sitini", "unga"]·TR["un", "unu", "unun", "ve-un"]·urd["آٹا", "آٹے", "آٹے-کا", "اور-آٹا", "ہ-آٹے-کا"]
Gen 18:6, Num 5:15, Judg 6:19, 1 Sam 1:24, 1 Sam 28:24, 2 Sam 17:28, 1 Kgs 4:22, 1 Kgs 17:12, 1 Kgs 17:14, 1 Kgs 17:16, 2 Kgs 4:41, 1 Chr 12:40 (+2 more)
Related Senses
H3754 1. vineyard, cultivated grape plot (92×)H0730 1. cedar tree or wood (73×)H1612 1. vine, grapevine (55×)H3293a 1. forest, wood, thicket (55×)H5560 1. fine flour (53×)H5193 1. plant vegetation (48×)H2232 1. sow seed, plant crops (41×)H1715 1. grain, cereal crop (40×)H7114b 1. reap, harvest grain (36×)H2132 1. olive tree (34×)H8184 1. barley (34×)H2406 1. wheat (grain crop) (30×)H7070 1. reed, cane (plant) (30×)H7848 1. acacia (28×)H8328 1. root of a plant (28×)H8384 1. fig tree (25×)H5488 1. reeds, rushes (in 'Sea of Reeds') (24×)G0290 1. a vineyard (23×)G2325 1. reap, harvest a crop (21×)G4687 1. sow seed, plant (21×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† קֶ֫מַח n.[m.] flour, meal;—abs. ק׳ 1 S 1:24 +, קָ֑מַח Is 47:2; cstr. קֶמַח Nu 5:15;—Ju 6:19 (material for unleavened cakes), 1 S 1:24; 28:24; 2 K 4:41; defined by סֹלֶת (q.v.) Gn 18:6, disting. from סֹלֶת 1 K 5:2; of barley (שְׂעֹרִים) Nu 5:15 (P), but 2 S 17:28 + חִטִּם, שְׂעֹרִים, קָלִי; + other articles of food 1 Ch 12:41 (van d. H. v 40); kept in a כַּד 1 K 17:12, 14, 16; made by grinding Is 47:2; צֶמַח בְּלִי יַעֲשֶׂה ק׳ Ho 8:7.