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# עֻגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5692

**disc of bread** — used 7 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

disc of bread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5692/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֻגָה²: n.f. disc cake of bread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5692/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. disc or cake of bread;—abs. ע׳ Ho 7:8; 1 K 17:13, cstr. עֻגַת 19:6; Ez 4:12; pl. עֻגוֹת Gn 18:6; Nu 11:8; cstr. עֻגֹת Ex 12:39;—bread-cake, made of קֶמַח סֹלֶת Gn 18:6 (J), of קֶמַח 1 K 17:13, of manna Nu 11:8 (JE; vb. בִּשֵּׁל), of barley Ez 4:12 (sim.); unleavened, עֻגֹת מַצּוֹת Ex 12:39 (E; vb. אָפָה); ע׳ רְצָפִים 1 K 19:6 cake of hot-stones, i.e. baked on them; metaph. ע׳ בְּלִי הֲפוּכָה Ho 7:8 Ephr. is a cake not turned (i.e. burnt, ruined).—On ע׳ v. BenzArch. 85 f. NowArch. i. iii KennedyEncy. Bib.Bread and synonyms, Ib.Cake.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 bread cake (4); bread cakes (3).

## In the verses

[Hosea 7:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.8/#tree)

אֶפְרַ֕יִם בָּעַמִּ֖ים ה֣וּא יִתְבּוֹלָ֑ל אֶפְרַ֛יִם הָיָ֥ה עֻגָ֖ה בְּלִ֥י הֲפוּכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Ephraim among the peoples he he.mixes.himself Ephraim he.has.become a.bread.cake not turned.over

*JPS 1917:* Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned.

[Ezekiel 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.12/#tree)

וְעֻגַ֥ת שְׂעֹרִ֖ים תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה וְהִ֗יא בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙ צֵאַ֣ת הָֽאָדָ֔ם תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and a.bread.cake of.barley(s) you will.eat.it and it in the.dung(s) of.the.excrement of.(the) humankind you will.bake.it to eyes their

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5692.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5692/): 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).