Lexical Summary challah: a cake (a type used in offerings) Original Word: חַלָּהTransliteration: challah Phonetic Spelling: (khal-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a cake (a type used in offerings) Meaning: a cake (a type used in offerings) Strong's Concordance cake From chalal; a cake (as usually punctured) -- cake. see HEBREW chalal Brown-Driver-Briggs H2471. challah חַלָּה noun feminine a kind of cake (probably as perforated, see Di Leviticus 2:4) — ׳ח absolute Numbers 15:20; Leviticus 24:5; construct חַלַּת Exodus 29:23 4t.; plural חַלּוֺת Leviticus 2:4 2t.; חַלֹּת Exodus 29:2-3t. — used in offerings: 1 at the sacrif. of David on removal of ark, given to each person as part of peace-offering 2 Samuel 6:19. 2 elsewhere only P (H Leviticus 24:5 (twice in verse)): a. of the 12 cakes of the table of the holy place, made of סלת Leviticus 24:5 (twice in verse). b. made of ערסת ראשׁית as an offering of first-fruits Numbers 15:20. c. of שׁמן לחם, to be burnt with the עוֺלָה Exodus 29:23 = Leviticus 8:26. d. of מַצָּה burnt on the altar with c. Leviticus 8:26, but usually to be eaten by participants in the several forms of peace- offering Numbers 6:19, and such mingled with oil Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 2:4; 7:12 (twice in verse); Numbers 6:15. e. ׳ח חמץ לחם to be used by the offerer in connection with the unleavened cakes of d. Leviticus 7:13. |
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