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אָפָה

ʼâphâh · H644 · Hebrew · 25 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to bake

    Causative action by which humans prepare food with dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven

    Examples

    Genesis 19:3 Yet he strongly urged them, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

    Exodus 12:39 And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had no yeast, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

    Exodus 16:23 then he said to them, “This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”

  2. baker

    Person who made it his/her profession to bake food

    Examples

    Genesis 40:1 Then it came about after these things, that the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

    Genesis 40:5 Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation.

    Genesis 40:17 and in the top basket there were some of all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

How it’s used In 12 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

13 occurrences in 6 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

9 occurrences in 7 groups

Second objectAs in “call him Lord”

3 occurrences in 3 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Cooked002001001016
אָפָה describes the act of baking, as Lot baking unleavened bread for his visitors.
Professions001001003009
The word also names the profession of a baker, as the chief baker who served in Pharaoh's household.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָפָהʼâphâh · H644מַאֲפֶה maʼăpheh · H3989 · something baked · 1×תֻּפִין tuphîyn · H8601 · baked pieces · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H644. aphah אָפָה verb bake (Assyrian êpû, Zim BP 43 Aramaic אֲפָא ) — Qal Perfect, ׳א…
H644. aphah
אָפָה verb bake (Assyrian êpû, Zim BP 43 Aramaic אֲפָא ) —
Qal Perfect, ׳א Gen 19:3; אָפִיתִי Isa 44:19; וְאָפו consecutive Lev 26:26 etc.; Imperfect3feminine singular suffix וַתֹּפֵהו1Sa 28:24; יאֹפו Eze 46:20; תּאֹפו Exo 16:23; Imperative אֵפו Exo 16:23; Participle אֹפֶה Gen 40:1+; אֹפֵהֶם Hos 7:6; plural אֹפִים Gen 40:16 +; אֹפוֺת 1Sa 8:13, etc. — bake, object לֶחֶםLev 26:26 (H) Isa 44:15, Isa 44:19 (compare Jer 37:21); מַצּוֺת Gen 19:3 (J) 1Sa 28:24 מצות עֻגוֺת Exo 12:39 (J); חַלּוֺת Lev 24:5 (H); מִנְחָה Eze 46:20; מָן Exo 16:23 (twice in verse). (P; — c 2nd object of material Exo 12:39 בָּצֵק, Lev 24:5 סֹלֶת, 1Sa 28:24 קֶמַח). Participle always as substantive baker Gen 40:1-2, Gen 40:5, Gen 40:16, Gen 40:17, Gen 40:20, Gen 40:22; Gen 41:10 (all E) Hos 7:4, Hos 7:6; Jer 37:21 הָא ׳מִחוּץ out of the bakers' street; also 1Sa 8:13 (|| רַקָּחוֺת טַבָּחוֺת, only here feminine) Nowhere as a menial office, not even 1Sa 8:13 where despotic power & growth of court emphasized.
Niph`al Imperfect3feminine singular תֵּאָפֶה Lev 6:10; Lev 7:9; Lev 7:3feminine plural תֵּאָפֶינָה Lev 23:17; — passive of
Qal be baked, baken of לֶחֶם Lev 23:17; מִנְחָה Lev 7:9; compare Lev 6:10.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Professions12 occurrencesCooked12 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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