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קָמָה
qâmâh · Hebrew · Strong's H7054 · 10 occurrences
The KJV renders 8 different Hebrew and Greek words as “corn”
What it means
something that rises, i.e. a stalk of grain
feminine of active participle of H6965 (קוּם);
How the KJV renders it
corn, grown up, stalk
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“corn”
also renders kókkos (G2848), sîtos (G4621), spórimos (G4702), bᵉlîyl (H1098), bâr (H1250), dâgân (H1715), sheber (H7668)
Where it appears
10 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 8 verses shown.
2 Kings 19:26 · HNcfsa
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
Deuteronomy 16:9 · HRd/Ncfsa
You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
Deuteronomy 23:25 · HNcfsc
When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
Exodus 22:6 · HTd/Ncfsa
“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Hosea 8:7 · HNcfsa
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Isaiah 17:5 · HNcfsa
It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
Isaiah 37:27 HNcfsaJudges 15:5 HNcfsa
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