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קֶמַח H7058
H7058 is the Hebrew word קֶמַח, transliterated qemach and said keh'-makh. The King James Version most often renders it meal.
What it means
flour.
Where it comes from
from an unused root probably meaning to grind.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 14 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: flour, meal.
Verses using קֶמַח
All 14 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 18:6 · KJV
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.
Numbers 5:15 · KJV
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.
Judges 6:19 · KJV
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.
1 Samuel 1:24 · KJV
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.
1 Samuel 28:24 · KJV
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:
2 Samuel 17:28 · KJV
Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
1 Kings 4:22 · KJV
And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
1 Kings 17:12 · KJV
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.
1 Kings 17:14 · KJV
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.
1 Kings 17:16 · KJV
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.
2 Kings 4:41 · KJV
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.
1 Chronicles 12:40 · KJV
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.
Isaiah 47:2 · KJV
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Hosea 8:7 · KJV
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.
Common questions
What does Strong's H7058 mean?
H7058 is the Hebrew word קֶמַח (qemach), meaning flour.
How is H7058 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it meal (9 times), flour (4 times), no meal (1 time).
How many times does H7058 appear in the Bible?
קֶמַח (qemach) is tagged in 14 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H7058 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root probably meaning to grind.
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