Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
flour
Usage: flour, meal, meal flour
Qemach means “flour” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7058 קֶמַח (qemach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qemach (keh'-makh) n-m. 1. flour [from an unused root probably meaning to grind] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include meal, flour, and grind. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
qemach (keh'-makh) n-m. 1. flour [from an unused root probably meaning to grind] KJV: flour, meal.
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flour
Usage: flour, meal, meal flour
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qemach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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14 indexed usages in 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.
Then 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.
And 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.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7058.
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.
Then 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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:
Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7058, grouped by book.
Qemach (Strong's H7058) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "flour". qemach (keh'-makh) n-m. 1. flour [from an unused root probably meaning to grind]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H7058 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7058 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as meal, flour, and grind. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.