Cook
טַבָּחָהStrong’s H2879tabbachah (tab-ba-chah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tabbachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cooks”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.”
Meaning
- Female cook, cook
How it's translated
- and to cooks 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
טַבָּחָה tabbachah · cook
female cook, cook
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cook” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COOK, verb transitive
[Latin]
- To prepare, as victuals for the table, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.
- To prepare for any purpose.
- To throw. [Obs. or local.]
All definitions and other forms of “cook”
COOK, verb intransitive
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
COOK, noun
[Latin]
One whose occupation is to prepare victuals for the table; a man or woman who dresses meat or vegetables for eating.
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.