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# מָעוֹג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4580

**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/1502/4580/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָעוֹג²: cake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4580/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cake;—abs. 1 K 17:12; לַעֲגֵי מ׳ ψ 35:16 mockers of (for) a cake, i.e. buffoons, but 𝔊 Che al. read לַעַג (לֹעֲגֵי) לָֽעֲגוּ.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: food (1); of cake (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 35:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/#tree)

בְּ֭חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָע֑וֹג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י שִׁנֵּֽימוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (in).godless \[ones\] of.mockers of.cake they.gnashed towards me teeth their

*JPS 1917:* With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

[1 Kings 17:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.12/#tree)

וַתֹּ֗אמֶר חַי־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ אִם־יֶשׁ־לִ֣י מָע֔וֹג כִּ֣י אִם־מְלֹ֤א כַף־קֶ֙מַח֙ בַּכַּ֔ד וּמְעַט־שֶׁ֖מֶן בַּצַּפָּ֑חַת וְהִנְנִ֨י מְקֹשֶׁ֜שֶׁת שְׁנַ֣יִם עֵצִ֗ים וּבָ֙אתִי֙ וַעֲשִׂיתִ֙יהוּ֙ לִ֣י וְלִבְנִ֔י וַאֲכַלְנֻ֖הוּ וָמָֽתְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.said \[by\].the.life of.Yahweh God your if there.\[is\] for me food (dm) (if) \[the\].fullness of.a.palm of.flour in (the) jar and a.little of.oil in the jug and here I \[am\].gathering two wood(s) and I.will.go and I will.prepare.it for myself and for son my and we will.eat.it and we.will.die

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4580.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4580/): 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).