קמח
Hebrew
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Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Aramaic קַמְחָא (qamḥā, “flour”) and Arabic قَمْح (qamḥ, “wheat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈkemaχ/
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Noun
[edit]קֶמַח • (kémakh) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]
- flour (powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry)
References
[edit]- H7058 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “קֶמַח”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 582b
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1384b
- “קמח” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
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