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# קֹמֶץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7062

**closed hand** — used 4 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

closed hand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7062/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֹ֫מֶץ: closed hand, fist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7062/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] closed hand, fist;—sf. מְלֹא קֻמְצוֹ his fist-full Lv 2:2; 5:12; take up בְּק׳ 6:8 in his fist (all P); pl. לִקְמָצִים Gn 41:47 the earth yielded by handfuls (i.e. abundantly; E, according to most; P, Ball Holz, who questions text).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: his handful (2); handful (1); handfuls (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 41:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.47/#tree)

וַתַּ֣עַשׂ הָאָ֔רֶץ בְּשֶׁ֖בַע שְׁנֵ֣י הַשָּׂבָ֑ע לִקְמָצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.produced the land in seven the.years of.(the) plenty to handfuls

*JPS 1917:* And in the seven years of plenty the earth brought forth in heaps.

[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/7062.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7062/): 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).