Dish
צַלַּ֫חַתStrong’s H6747tsallachat (tsal-la-chat)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsallachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “dish” and “bowl”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.”
Meaning
- Dish, bowl
How it's translated
- in the dish 2
- the bowl 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
צַלַּ֫חַת tsallachat · dish
dish, bowl
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISH, noun
[Gr., Latin It is the same word as disk and desk, and seems to signify something flat, plain or extended.]
- A broad open vessel, made of various materials, used for serving up meat and various kinds of food at the table.
- The meat or provisions served in a dish Hence, any particular kind of food.
- Among miners, a trough in which ore is measure, about 28 inches long, 4 deep and 6 wide.
All definitions and other forms of “dish”
DISH, verb transitive
To put in a dish; as, the meat is all dished, and ready for the table.
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.