קָמָהqâmâh
standing grain (Exodus 22:5; Deuteronomy 23:26; Judges 15:5; Deuteronomy 16:9; Isaiah 17:5)
Pronunciation: kuw-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7054
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 22:6 “If you are burning thornbushes and the fire gets out of control and spreads into another person’s field, destroying the sheaves or the uncut grain or the whole crop, the one who started the fire must pay for the lost crop.
- Deuteronomy 16:9 “Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the grain at the time of harvest.
- Deuteronomy 23:25 And when you enter your neighbor’s field of grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not harvest it with a sickle.
- Judges 15:5 Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the grain fields of the Philistines. He burned all their grain to the ground, including the sheaves and the uncut grain. He also destroyed their vineyards and olive groves.
- 2 Kings 19:26 That is why their people have so little power and are so frightened and confused. They are as weak as grass, as easily trampled as tender green shoots. They are like grass sprouting on a housetop, scorched before it can grow lush and tall.
- Isaiah 17:5 The whole land will look like a grainfield after the harvesters have gathered the grain. It will be desolate, like the fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).