kali · roasted grain

What it means

kali (קָלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “roasted grain”.

Grain roasted over the fire, eaten as it is.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Parched kernels, a common food.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2

• Leviticus 23:14

  And bread or roasted grain or fresh grain you shall not eat until this very day, until you have brought the offering of your Elohim; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Ruth 2:14

  At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here and eat some of the bread and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he handed her roasted grain; she ate, was satisfied, and had some left over.

• 1 Samuel 17:17

  Jesse said to David his son, “Take, please, for your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves, and hurry them to the camp to your brothers.

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.

• 2 Samuel 17:28

  brought beds, basins, and potter’s vessels, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, and roasted grain,

And 1 more times.