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Cake

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0829, H3561, H3834, H4580, H6742, G7030, G21014, H1690, H2751, H4682, H2471
Hebrew
אֶשְׁפָּר · ʼeshpâr
Greek
ἐγκρυφίας · egkruphias

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἐγκρυφίας

G7030
Transliteration
egkruphias
Part of speech
G:N-N
Indexed occurrences
0

Glosses

cakes

Lexicon definition

cakes baked in hot ashes

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

πρόμαχος

G21014
Transliteration
promachos
Indexed occurrences
0

Glosses

cake

Lexicon definition

1. fighting before or in front : πρόμαχοι, οἱ, the foremost fighters, champions , (Homer); ἐν προμάχοισιν among the foremost , (Iliad by Homer):—;as adjective, πρ. δόρυ the champion spear, (Sophocles Tragicus) 2. fighting for , πόλεως, δόμων (Aeschulus Tragicus) (ML)

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

מַצָּה

H4682
Transliteration
matstsâh
Pronunciation
mats-tsaw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
53

Glosses

unleavened bread, cake, s, unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.

Lexicon definition

properly, sweetness

concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast)

specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

כַּוָּן

H3561
Transliteration
kavvân
Pronunciation
kav-vawn'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
17

Glosses

cake.

Lexicon definition

something prepared, i.e. a sacrificial wafer

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

לָבִיבָה

H3834
Transliteration
lâbîybâh
Pronunciation
law-bee-baw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
3

Glosses

cake.

Lexicon definition

a cake (either as fried or turned)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

צְלוּל

H6742
Transliteration
tsᵉlûwl
Pronunciation
tsel-ool'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

cake.

Lexicon definition

a (round or flattened) cake

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

חַלָּה

H2471
Transliteration
challâh
Pronunciation
khal-law'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
14

Glosses

cake.

Lexicon definition

a cake (as usually punctured)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Cake

Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19). Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr. 23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the Hebrew word nikuddim, here used, ought rather to be rendered "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3. The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey. We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1 Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings 17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which were fit for offerings.

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

CAKE

See BREAD.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Cake

Indexed occurrences: 14

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Strong's Concordance

Cakes

Indexed occurrences: 20

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All Scripture references77 references

Genesis 2

Genesis 19:3Genesis 40:16

Exodus 13

Exodus 12:8Exodus 12:15Exodus 12:17Exodus 12:18Exodus 12:20Exodus 12:39Exodus 13:6Exodus 13:7Exodus 16:31Exodus 23:15Exodus 29:2Exodus 29:23Exodus 34:18

Leviticus 10

Leviticus 2:4Leviticus 2:5Leviticus 6:9Leviticus 7:12Leviticus 7:13Leviticus 7:14Leviticus 8:2Leviticus 8:26Leviticus 10:12Leviticus 23:6

Numbers 7

Numbers 6:15Numbers 6:17Numbers 6:19Numbers 9:11Numbers 11:8Numbers 15:20Numbers 28:17

Deuteronomy 3

Deuteronomy 16:3Deuteronomy 16:8Deuteronomy 16:16

Joshua 1

Joshua 5:11

Judges 4

Judges 6:19Judges 6:20Judges 6:21Judges 7:13

1 Samuel 3

1 Samuel 25:181 Samuel 28:241 Samuel 30:12

2 Samuel 4

2 Samuel 6:192 Samuel 13:62 Samuel 13:82 Samuel 13:10

1 Kings 5

1 Kings 4:251 Kings 14:31 Kings 17:121 Kings 17:131 Kings 19:6

2 Kings 2

2 Kings 20:72 Kings 23:9

1 Chronicles 4

1 Chronicles 12:401 Chronicles 12:411 Chronicles 16:31 Chronicles 23:29

2 Chronicles 4

2 Chronicles 8:132 Chronicles 30:132 Chronicles 30:212 Chronicles 35:17

Ezra 1

Ezra 6:22

Psalms 1

Psalms 35:16

Isaiah 2

Isaiah 16:7Isaiah 38:21

Jeremiah 2

Jeremiah 7:18Jeremiah 44:19

Ezekiel 3

Ezekiel 4:12Ezekiel 27:17Ezekiel 45:21

Hosea 2

Hosea 3:1Hosea 7:8

Micah 2

Micah 4:4Micah 7:1

Mark 1

Mark 11:13

Acts 1

Acts 20:11

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Ancient Context3 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How The Midianites And Other Nations Fought Against The Israelites And Beat Them, And Afflicted Their Country For Seven Years, How They Were Delivered By Gideon, Who Ruled Over The Multitude For Forty Years.

Antiquities Book 5, Chapter 6

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

That When David Had Conquered The Philistines Who Made War Against Him At Jerusalem, He Removed The Ark To Jerusalem And Had A Mind To Build A Temple.

Antiquities Book 7, Chapter 4

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Ahab When He Had Taken Jezebel To Wife Became More Wicked Than All The Kings That Had Been Before Him; Of The Actions Of The Prophet Elijah, And What Befell Naboth.

Antiquities Book 8, Chapter 13

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Bake-meats

Baked provisions (Gen. 40:17), literally "works of the baker," such as biscuits and cakes.

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Bake

The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times, committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6; Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class of public bakers mentioned (Hos. 7:4, 6; Jer. 37:21). The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes (Ex. 29:23; 1 Sam. 2:36), of a thinness that rendered them easily broken (Isa. 58:7; Matt. 14:19; 26:26; Acts 20:11). Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was half-filled with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over them. Hence we read of "cakes baken on the coals" (1 Kings 19:6), and "baken in the oven" (Lev. 2:4). (See [44]BREAD.)

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Bunch

(1.) A bundle of twigs (Ex. 12:22). (2.) Bunch or cake of raisins (2 Sam. 16:1). (3.) The "bunch of a camel" (Isa. 30:6).

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Cake

Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19). Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr. 23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the Hebrew word nikuddim, here used, ought rather to be rendered "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3. The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey. We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1 Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings 17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which were fit for offerings.

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Diblathaim

Two cakes, a city of Moab, on the east of the Dead Sea (Num. 33:46; Jer. 48:22).

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Fig

First mentioned in Gen. 3:7. The fig-tree is mentioned (Deut. 8:8) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of peace and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech. 3:10). Figs were used medicinally (2 Kings 20:7), and pressed together and formed into "cakes" as articles of diet (1 Sam. 30:12; Jer. 24:2). Our Lord's cursing the fig-tree near Bethany (Mark 11:13) has occasioned much perplexity from the circumstance, as mentioned by the evangelist, that "the time of figs was not yet." The explanation of the words, however, lies in the simple fact that the fruit of the fig-tree appears before the leaves, and hence that if the tree produced leaves it ought also to have had fruit. It ought to have had fruit if it had been true to its "pretensions," in showing its leaves at this particular season. "This tree, so to speak, vaunted itself to be in advance of all the other trees, challenged the passer-by that he should come and refresh himself with its fruit. Yet when the Lord accepted its challenge and drew near, it proved to be but as the others, without fruit as they; for indeed, as the evangelist observes, the time of figs had not yet arrived. Its fault, if one may use the word, lay in its pretensions, in its making a show to run before the rest when it did not so indeed" (Trench, Miracles). The fig-tree of Palestine (Ficus carica) produces two and sometimes three crops of figs in a year, (1) the bikkurah, or "early-ripe fig" (Micah 7:1; Isa. 28:4; Hos. 9:10, R.V.), which is ripe about the end of June, dropping off as soon as it is ripe (Nah. 3:12); (2) the kermus, or "summer fig," then begins to be formed, and is ripe about August; and (3) the pag (plural "green figs," Cant. 2:13; Gr. olynthos, Rev. 6:13, "the untimely fig"), or "winter fig," which ripens in sheltered spots in spring.

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Flagon

Heb. ashishah, (2 Sam. 6:19; 1 Chr. 16:3; Cant. 2:5; Hos. 3:1), meaning properly "a cake of pressed raisins." "Flagons of wine" of the Authorized Version should be, as in the Revised Version, "cakes of raisins" in all these passages. In Isa. 22:24 it is the rendering of the Hebrew nebel, which properly means a bottle or vessel of skin. (Comp. 1 Sam. 1:24; 10:3; 25:18; 2 Sam. 16:1, where the same Hebrew word is used.)

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Mouldy

Of the Gibeonites it is said that "all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy" (Josh. 9:5, 12). The Hebrew word here rendered "mouldy" (nikuddim) is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3, and denotes a kind of crisp cake. The meaning is that the bread of the Gibeonites had become dry and hard, hard as biscuits, and thus was an evidence of the length of the journey they had travelled.

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Og

a cake; bread baked in ashes

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Saffron

Heb. karkom, Arab. zafran (i.e., "yellow"), mentioned only in Cant. 4:13, 14; the Crocus sativus. Many species of the crocus are found in Palestine. The pistils and stigmata, from the centre of its flowers, are pressed into "saffron cakes," common in the East. "We found," says Tristram, "saffron a very useful condiment in travelling cookery, a very small pinch of it giving not only a rich yellow colour but an agreable flavour to a dish of rice or to an insipid stew."

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Tenth deal

I.e., the tenth part of an ephah (as in the R.V.), equal to an omer or six pints. The recovered leper, to complete his purification, was required to bring a trespass, a sin, and a burnt offering, and to present a meal offering, a tenth deal or an omer of flour for each, with oil to make it into bread or cakes (Lev. 14:10, 21; comp. Ex. 16:36; 29:40).

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Wafers

Thin cakes (Ex. 16:31; 29:2, 23; Lev. 2:4; 7:12; 8:26; Num. 6:15, 19) used in various offerings.

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