Flatbread
רָקִיקStrong’s H7550raqiq (ra-qiq)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raqiq is the Hebrew word usually translated “wafers of”, “thin breads of” and “wafer”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.”
Meaning
- Thin cake, wafer
How it's translated
- and wafers of 2
- and thin breads of 2
- and a wafer 1
- and a thin bread 1
- and a wafer of 1
- and to wafers of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:23And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
- Leviticus 2:4And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
- Leviticus 7:12If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
- Leviticus 8:26And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
- Numbers 6:15And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
- Numbers 6:19And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
Hebrew dictionary
רָקִיק raqiq · flatbread
thin cake, wafer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wafer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAFER, noun
- A thin cake or leaf; as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist.
- A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried; used in sealing letters.
All definitions and other forms of “wafer”
WAFER, verb transitive
To seal or close with a wafer
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.