Bun
חַלָּהStrong’s H2471challah (chal-lah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Challah is the Hebrew word usually translated “round perforated breads”, “cake of” and “round perforated breads of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.”
Meaning
- Cake, cake (if pierced) (probably perforated)
How it's translated
- round perforated breads 3
- and a cake of 2
- round perforated breads of 2
- and cakes of 1
- a round perforated bread of 1
- and a round perforated bread of 1
- the round perforated bread 1
- cakes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 5
- Numbers 3
- Exodus 2
- 2 Samuel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:23And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
- Leviticus 2:4And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
- Leviticus 7:12If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
- Leviticus 7:13Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
- Leviticus 8:26And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
- Leviticus 24:5And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Hebrew dictionary
חַלָּה challah · bun
cake, cake (if pierced) (probably perforated)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAKE, noun
- A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass.
- Something in the form of a cake rather flat than high, but roundish; as a cake on a tree.
- A mass of matter concreted; as a cake of ice.
- A hard swelling on the flesh; or rather a concretion without such swelling.
All definitions and other forms of “cake”
CAKE, verb transitive
To form into a cake or mass.
CAKE, verb intransitive
To concrete, or form into a had mass, as dough in an oven, or as flesh or any other substance.
CAKE, verb intransitive
To cackle.
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.