solet · fine flour

What it means

solet (סֹלֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fine flour”.

The best kind.

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. The finest flour, for offerings and good bread.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Fine flour: the finest flour, the best part of the ground grain. It was used for the grain offerings and for the bread of kings.

• The fine flour of the offerings Leviticus 2:1Leviticus 2:4Numbers 15:4
• The bread of the presence Leviticus 24:5
• A luxury food 1 Kings 4:22Ezekiel 16:13
• Abraham has cakes made Genesis 18:6
• The price of fine flour in Samaria 2 Kings 7:12 Kings 7:16

Historical and cultural background

Solomon’s daily food distinguished “thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal” (1 Kings 4:22). Elisha announces the end of the famine in Samaria: “a seah of fine flour {will sell} for a shekel” (2 Kings 7:1).

How we translate it

Always “fine flour” (52 times). In Genesis 18:6 the Hebrew puts two words for flour together, and the sentence reads “three seahs of flour, fine flour!”.

How it is translated

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

• fine flour ×52
• fine ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×14
• Numbers×27
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Ezekiel×3

• 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.”

• Exodus 29:2

  and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil; of fine wheat flour you shall make them.

• Exodus 29:40

  And a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a libation of a quarter of a hin of wine, for the one lamb.

• Leviticus 2:1

  When a person presents a grain offering to YHWH, his offering shall be of fine flour; he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.

• Leviticus 2:2

  He shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall take from there his full handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall offer up in smoke its memorial portion on the altar, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 2:4

  When you present a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.

• Leviticus 2:5

  And if your offering is a grain offering on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour, mixed with oil, unleavened.

• Leviticus 2:7

  And if your offering is a grain offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

• Leviticus 5:11

  But if his means do not reach to two turtledoves or to two young pigeons, he shall bring, as his offering for what he has sinned, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 6:15

  He shall take up from it in his handful some of the fine flour of the grain offering and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and offer it up in smoke on the altar as a pleasing aroma, its memorial portion to YHWH.

• Leviticus 6:20

  “This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to YHWH on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

• Leviticus 7:12

  If he presents it for thanksgiving, then he shall present, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and fine flour well mixed, cakes mixed with oil.

• Leviticus 14:10

  On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

• Leviticus 14:21

  But if he is poor and his means do not reach, he shall take one lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make expiation for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil,

• Leviticus 23:13

  and its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma; and its libation of wine, a fourth of a hin.

• Leviticus 23:17

  From your dwellings you shall bring two loaves for a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as first fruits to YHWH.

• Leviticus 24:5

  And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.

• Numbers 6:15

  and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their libations.

• Numbers 7:13

  And his offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:19

  He presented his offering: one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:25

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:31

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:37

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:43

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:49

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:55

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:61

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:67

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:73

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:79

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 8:8

  Then they shall take a young bull and its grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and you shall take a second young bull as a sin offering.

• Numbers 15:4

  the one who presents his offering to YHWH shall present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:6

  Or for a ram you shall offer a grain offering of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:9

  one shall present with the young bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;

• Numbers 28:5

  and a tenth of the ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.

• Numbers 28:9

  On the day of the Sabbath: two lambs a year old, without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its libation.

• Numbers 28:12

  and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenths of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the ram;

• Numbers 28:13

  and a tenth each of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each lamb; a burnt offering of pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:20

  Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths of an ephah for a bull and two tenths for the ram you shall offer;

• Numbers 28:28

  and their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for the ram,

And 13 more times.