To knead
לוּשׁStrong’s H3888lush
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lush is the Hebrew word usually translated “kneaded”, “knead” and “kneading”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to knead (dough)
How it's translated
- and she kneaded 2
- knead 1
- kneading 1
- from kneading 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Hosea 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 28:24And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
- 2 Samuel 13:8So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
- Jeremiah 7:18The 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.
- Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
Hebrew dictionary
לוּשׁ lush · to knead
(Qal) to knead (dough)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “knead” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KNEAD, verb transitive
nead. To work and press ingredients into a mass, usually with the hands; particularly, to work into a well mixed mass the materials of bread, cake or paste; as, to knead dough.
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.