kemach · flour

What it means

kemach (קֶמַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flour”.

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. Ground grain for making bread.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• flour ×13
• meal ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 18:6

  So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, three seahs of flour, fine flour! Knead it and make cakes.”

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• Judges 6:19

  Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in the basket, and the broth he put in the pot, and he brought them out to him under the oak and presented them.

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  And she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of YHWH at Shiloh. And the boy was young.

• 1 Samuel 28:24

  The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she hurried and sacrificed it; she took flour, kneaded it, and baked it into unleavened bread.

• 2 Samuel 17:28

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

• 1 Kings 4:22

  And the food of Solomon for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As YHWH your Elohim lives, I have no cake, only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jug; and look, I am gathering a couple of sticks, and I will go in and prepare it for myself and for my son, and we will eat it and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up, and the jug of oil will not run short, until the day that YHWH gives rain on the face of the ground.’”

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run short, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Elijah.

• 2 Kings 4:41

  He said, “Then get flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour out some for the people, and let them eat.” And there was no harmful thing in the pot.

• 1 Chronicles 12:40

  And also those near to them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on cattle: food of flour, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

• Isaiah 47:2

  Take the mill and grind flour; uncover your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

• Hosea 8:7

  For wind they sow, and a whirlwind they will reap; standing grain, it has no sprout; it will not yield flour; if perhaps it yields, strangers will swallow it.