Qâmâh — H7054

Definition

feminine noun

something that rises, i.e. a stalk of grain

1. standing grain

Usually translated as

corn, stalk, grown up

Origin

feminine of active participle of H6965

• Qûwm (H6965)

Greek equivalents

• orthós (G3717)
• stáchys (G4719)

Occurrences

Qâmâh occurs 9 times in 8 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (2), Judges (1), 2 Kings (1), Isaiah (2), Hosea (1)

• Exodus 22:6 — If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn (הַקָּמָ֖ה), or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
• Deuteronomy 16:9 — Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn (בַּקָּמָ֔ה).
• Deuteronomy 23:25 — When thou comest into the standing corn (בְּקָמַ֣ת) of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.
• Judges 15:5 — And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn (בְּקָמ֣וֹת) of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
• Judges 15:5 — And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn (קָמָ֖ה), with the vineyards and olives.
• 2 Kings 19:26 — Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up (קָמָֽה).
• Isaiah 17:5 — And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn (קָמָ֔ה), and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
• Isaiah 37:27 — Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up (קָמָֽה).
• Hosea 8:7 — For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk (קָמָ֣ה): the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.