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# בָּצֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1217

**dough** — used 5 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

dough [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1217/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּצֵק²: dough [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1217/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dough—בָּצֵק Ex 12:39 + 4 times; sf. בְּצֵקוֹ Ex 12:34;—dough, not fermented Ex 12:34, 39 (E); no restriction 2 S 13:8 Ho 7:4 Je 7:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dough (4); \[the\] dough (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.4/#tree)

כֻּלָּם֙ מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים כְּמ֣וֹ תַנּ֔וּר בֹּעֵ֖רָה מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת מֵעִ֔יר מִלּ֥וּשׁ בָּצֵ֖ק עַד־חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* of.them all \[are\].adulterers like an.oven \[which\].burns from a.baker \[who\].he.ceases stirring.up from kneading \[the\].dough until it is.leavened

*JPS 1917:* They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.

[Exodus 12:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.34/#tree)

וַיִּשָּׂ֥א הָעָ֛ם אֶת־בְּצֵק֖וֹ טֶ֣רֶם יֶחְמָ֑ץ מִשְׁאֲרֹתָ֛ם צְרֻרֹ֥ת בְּשִׂמְלֹתָ֖ם עַל־שִׁכְמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.carried.off the people (et) dough its before it.was.leavened troughs their.kneading \[were\].bound.up in clothes their on shoulder their

*JPS 1917:* And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1217.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1217/): 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).