Bun
כַּוָּןStrong’s H3561kavvan (kav-van)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kavvan is the Hebrew word usually translated “cakes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.”
Meaning
- Cake, sacrificial cake
How it's translated
- cakes 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּוָּן kavvan · bun
cake, sacrificial cake
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.