To bake
אָפָהStrong’s H0644aphah (a-phah)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bakers”, “baker” and “it will be baked”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.”
Meaning
- To bake(Qal) · (Niphal) to be baked, baked
How it's translated
- the bakers 6
- and the baker 2
- it will be baked 2
- he baked 1
- a baker 1
- and they baked 1
- you will bake 1
- bake 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 9
- Leviticus 5
- Exodus 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 2
- Hosea 2
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 40:1And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
- Genesis 40:2And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
- Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
- Genesis 40:16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
- Genesis 40:17And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
- Genesis 40:20And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
Hebrew dictionary
אָפָה aphah · to bake
1) to bake 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bake 1a2) (subst) baker 1b) (Niphal) to be baked, baked
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAKE, verb transitive
- To heat, dry and harden, as in an oven or furnace, or under coals of fire; to dress and prepare for food, in a close place heated; as, to bake bread.
- To dry and harden by heat, either in an oven, kiln or furnace, or by the solar rays; as, to bake bricks; to bake the ground.
All definitions and other forms of “bake”
BAKE, verb intransitive
To do the work of baking; as, she brews, washes and bakes.
- To be baked; to dry and harden in heat; as, the bread bakes, the ground bakes in a hot sun.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.