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# אֶשְׁפָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H829

**cake** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/829/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** 2 S 6:19 = 1 Ch 16:3; 𝔊 2 S 6:19 Aq Symm cake or roll; other Verss. ancient & mod. have various conjectures, but actual etym. & meaning unknown; v. LagGGA 1884, No. 7, 262 = M i. 214 DrSm.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a date-cake (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 16:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.3/#tree)

וַיְחַלֵּק֙ לְכָל־אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מֵאִ֖ישׁ וְעַד־אִשָּׁ֑ה לְאִישׁ֙ כִּכַּר־לֶ֔חֶם וְאֶשְׁפָּ֖ר וַאֲשִׁישָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and he.distributed to every (the).person of.Israel from man and unto woman to each a.round.loaf of.bread and a.date-cake and a.raisin-cake

*JPS 1917:* And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a cake made in a pan, and a sweet cake.

[2 Samuel 6:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.19/#tree)

וַיְחַלֵּ֨ק לְכָל־הָעָ֜ם לְכָל־הֲמ֣וֹן יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ לְמֵאִ֣ישׁ וְעַד־אִשָּׁה֒ לְאִ֗ישׁ חַלַּ֥ת לֶ֙חֶם֙ אַחַ֔ת וְאֶשְׁפָּ֣ר אֶחָ֔ד וַאֲשִׁישָׁ֖ה אֶחָ֑ת וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ כָּל־הָעָ֖ם אִ֥ישׁ לְבֵיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.distributed to all the people to all the.multitude of.Israel to from a.man and unto a.woman to each a.cake of.bread one and a.date-cake one and a.raisin-cake one and it.went all the people each to his.own house

*JPS 1917:* And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a cake made in a pan, and a sweet cake. So all the people departed every one to his house.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/829.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/829/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).