Word

קֹמֶץ

qômets · H7062 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

handful

Amount of material that can be held in the palm of the hand

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.
Leviticus 6:15 ‘Then one of them shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its memorial offering to the LORD.
plentifully, abundantly

Literally: by handfuls; hence: in large quantities

Examples
Genesis 41:47 During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundantly.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּhis 3

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 2
לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מְלֹאgroup 2

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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Quantity002001001046: The word means a handful, a measured small quantity, directly illustrated by the priest's handful of fine flour and oil taken as the memorial portion (Leviticus 2:2, 5:12).
Intense002001003011: The same word forms the idiom "by handfuls," meaning abundantly, illustrated by the land producing abundantly during the seven years of plenty (Genesis 41:47).

Word family 2 words

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

קָמַץ qâmats · H7061 · to take (a handful of something) · 3×קֹמֶץqômets · H7062

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7062. qomets [קֹ֫מֶץ] noun [masculine] closed hand, fist; — suffix קֻמְצוֺ מְלֹא his…

H7062. qomets
[קֹ֫מֶץ] noun [masculine] closed hand, fist; — suffix קֻמְצוֺ מְלֹא his fist-full Lev 2:2; Lev 5:12; take up ׳בְּקLev 6:8 in his fist (all P); plural לִקְמָצִים Gen 41:47 the earth yielded by handfuls (i.e. abundantly; E, according to most; P, Ball Holz, who questions text).
קמשׂ (√ of following; meaning unknown).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Quantity3 occurrences Intense1 occurrence

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