Word

קָמַץ

qâmats · H7061 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

Action by which humans fill their hand with the amount of material that it can contain (to take (a handful of something))

Examples
Leviticus 2:2 ‘He shall then bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and he shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all of its frankincense. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke as its memorial portion on the altar, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 5:12 ‘He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, with the offerings of the LORD by fire: it is a sin offering.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

כֹּהֵןpriest 2
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

מְלֹאgroup 2
אַזְכָּרָהtoken portion 1

Second objectAs in “call him Lord”

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אַזְכָּרָהtoken portion 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 4 groups

מִןfrom+ מִנְחָהgrain offering, gift, tribute 1
מִןfrom+ שָׁםthere 1
מִןfrom+ הָher 1
עַלon, upon, over, against+ לְבוֹנָהfrankincense 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

לָקַח lâqach · H3947 · to take, to receive, to adopt: General verb for taking or grasping; קָמַץ is a specialized form of taking (specifically taking a handful), while לָקַח is the broader, more general term for the act of taking

Semantic domains 1 entry

Hold002003001009: The word means to take a handful, directly illustrated by the priest taking "his handful" of fine flour and oil as the memorial portion of the grain offering (Leviticus 2:2, 5:12; Numbers 5:26).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

קָמַץqâmats · H7061קֹמֶץ qômets · H7062 · handful, plentifully, abundantly · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7061. qamats קָמַץ verb enclose with the hand, grasp (Late Hebrew id. = Biblical Hebrew;…

H7061. qamats
קָמַץ verb enclose with the hand, grasp (Late Hebrew id. = Biblical Hebrew; קְמַץ ᵑ7; Assyrian ‡imƒu, kinƒu, is a part of the body occurring in pairs, MeissnSuppl. 84); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular consecutive וְקָמַץ Lev 2:2; Lev 5:12 (both with accusative קֻמְצוֺ מְלֹא + מִן of source), Num 5:26 (with accusative + מִן of source; all P).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Hold3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0