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# קָמַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7061

**enclose with the hand** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

enclose with the hand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7061/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָמַץ: vb. enclose with the hand, grasp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7061/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. enclose with the hand, grasp (NH id. = BH; 𝔗 קְמַץ; Assyrian ḳimṣu, kinṣu, is a part of the body occuring in pairs, MeissnSuppl. 84);— Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְקָמַץ Lv 2:2; 5:12 (both c. acc. מְלֹא קֻמְצוֹ + מִן of source), Nu 5:26 (c. acc. + מִן of source; all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will take a handful (3).

## In the verses

[Numbers 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.26/#tree)

וְקָמַ֨ץ הַכֹּהֵ֤ן מִן־הַמִּנְחָה֙ אֶת־אַזְכָּ֣רָתָ֔הּ וְהִקְטִ֖יר הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה וְאַחַ֛ר יַשְׁקֶ֥ה אֶת־הָאִשָּׁ֖ה אֶת־הַמָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.take.a.handful the priest from the.grain offering (et) offering its.memorial and he.will.make.\[it\].smoke to the altar and after he.will.make.drink (et) the woman (et) the waters

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

[Leviticus 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.12/#tree)

וֶהֱבִיאָהּ֮ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵן֒ וְקָמַ֣ץ הַכֹּהֵ֣ן ׀ מִ֠מֶּנָּה מְל֨וֹא קֻמְצ֜וֹ אֶת־אַזְכָּרָתָה֙ וְהִקְטִ֣יר הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָה עַ֖ל אִשֵּׁ֣י יְהוָ֑ה חַטָּ֖את הִֽוא׃

*Word for word:* and he will.bring.it to the priest and he.will.take.a.handful the priest from it the.fullness his.handful his (et) offering its.memorial and he.will.make.\[it\].smoke to the altar on the.fire.offerings of.Yahweh \[is\].a.sin.offering it

*JPS 1917:* And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke on the altar, upon the offerings of the LORD made by fire; it is a sin-offering.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7061.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7061/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).