קֶ֫מַח

Genesis 18:6 קֶ֣מַח flour

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

Here: Ordinary ground grain. Here it stands right beside the next word, as if the speaker named the flour and then upgraded it.

Numbers 5:15 קֶ֣מַח flour of

then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

Judges 6:19 קֶ֣מַח flour of

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

Here: Ordinary ground meal, not the specially sifted 'fine flour' (solet) of the temple grain offerings. It was a valuable staple at a time when Midianite raiders were destroying Israel's crops (6:3–4).

1 Samuel 1:24 קֶ֙מַח֙ flour

Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

Here: 'Flour.' Ordinary ground meal, the kind used for bread and for the grain offerings that went with animal sacrifices.

1 Samuel 28:24 קֶ֣מַח flour

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

2 Samuel 17:28 וְקֶ֣מַח and flour

They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

1 Kings 4:22 קָֽמַח׃ flour

Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

1 Kings 17:12 קֶ֙מַח֙ flour

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

Here: Ordinary ground grain for everyday bread, not the fine flour used for offerings. Her household staple is almost gone.

1 Kings 17:14 הַקֶּ֙מַח֙ <the> flour

for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”

Here: Ordinary ground grain for daily bread, not the fine 'semolina' (solet) used in offerings. This is a poor household's staple.

1 Kings 17:16 הַקֶּ֙מַח֙ <the> flour

The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.

Here: Ordinary ground grain, the everyday stuff of flatbread, not the 'fine flour' (solet) kept for offerings. 'The flour' means the specific little bit she had left.

2 Kings 4:41 קֶ֔מַח flour

Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

1 Chronicles 12:40 קֶ֠מַח flour

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

Isaiah 47:2 קָ֑מַח flour

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

Here: Plain ground meal. The queen who once ate fine food must now produce the raw flour for others.

Hosea 8:7 קֶּ֔מַח flour

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Here: Ground flour, the thing a harvest exists to give you: bread on the table. The sprout never gets as far as food. The sound echo *ṣemaḥ … qemaḥ* makes the line stick in the ear.