Griddle
מַחֲבַתStrong’s H4227machavat (ma-cha-vat)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machavat is the Hebrew word usually translated “baking tray”, “baked cake” and “baking tray of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.”
Meaning
- Flat plate, pan, griddlefor baking
How it's translated
- a baking tray 2
- the baking tray 1
- and to the baked cake 1
- a baking tray of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 6:21In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 7:9And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.
- 1 Chronicles 23:29Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
- Ezekiel 4:3Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲבַת machavat · griddle
1) flat plate, pan, griddle 1a) for baking
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “griddle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRID'DLE, noun
A pan, broad and shallow, for baking cakes.
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.