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# כַּוָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3561

**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/1499/3561/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּוָּן: cake, sacrificial cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3561/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cake, sacrificial cake (?√ כון; cf. Hiph. 2. a. prepare food, etc. prob. Bab. loan-word, from kamânu, cake used in worship of Ištar, ZimKAT 3, 441.)—only pl. abs. לַעֲשׂוֹת כַּוָּנִים לִמְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם Je 7:18; עָשִׂינוּ לָהּ כ׳ לְהַעֲצִבָהֿ 44:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 44:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.19/#tree)

וְכִֽי־אֲנַ֤חְנוּ מְקַטְּרִים֙ לִמְלֶ֣כֶת הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּלְהַסֵּ֥ךְ לָ֖הּ נְסָכִ֑ים הֲמִֽבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י אֲנָשֵׁ֗ינוּ עָשִׂ֨ינוּ לָ֤הּ כַּוָּנִים֙ לְהַ֣עֲצִבָ֔ה וְהַסֵּ֥ךְ לָ֖הּ נְסָכִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and (dm) we \[were\].making.smoke to the.queen of the.heavens and to pour.out to her drink.offerings ? (from) without husbands our did.we.make for her cakes to form her and to.pour.out to her drink.offerings

*JPS 1917:* And is it we that offer to the queen of heaven, and pour out drink-offerings unto her? did we make her cakes in her image, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands?'

[Jeremiah 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.18/#tree)

הַבָּנִ֞ים מְלַקְּטִ֣ים עֵצִ֗ים וְהָֽאָבוֹת֙ מְבַעֲרִ֣ים אֶת־הָאֵ֔שׁ וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים לָשׁ֣וֹת בָּצֵ֑ק לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת כַּוָּנִ֜ים לִמְלֶ֣כֶת הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וְהַסֵּ֤ךְ נְסָכִים֙ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים לְמַ֖עַן הַכְעִסֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* the children \[are\].gathering wood(s) and the fathers \[are\].kindling (et) the fire and the women \[are\].kneading dough to make cakes for the.queen of the.heavens and they.are.pouring.out drink.offerings to gods other so.as to provoke.me.to.anger

*JPS 1917:* The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3561.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3561/): 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).