Hebrew word · H644
אָפָה
'opeh
to bake
Appears 25 times in 24 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
1) to bake
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to bake
1a2) (subst) baker
1b) (Niphal) to be baked, baked
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Genesis · 9
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Genesis 19:3 אָפָ֖ה he baked
But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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Genesis 40:1 וְהָאֹפֶ֑ה and the baker
Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
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Genesis 40:2 הָאוֹפִֽים׃ the bakers
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
Here: "The bakers," literally "the ones baking." The chief baker was responsible for the bread and pastries served at the king's table (compare the baskets of baked goods in 40:16–17).
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Genesis 40:5 וְהָאֹפֶ֗ה and the baker
both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
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Genesis 40:16 הָאֹפִ֖ים the bakers
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
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Genesis 40:17 אֹפֶ֑ה a baker
In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
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Genesis 40:20 הָאֹפִ֖ים the bakers
On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
Here: A participle of 'to bake' used as a noun: 'those who bake'. They oversaw the king's bread and pastries, the counterpart to the drink service.
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Genesis 40:22 הָאֹפִ֖ים the bakers
But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
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Genesis 41:10 הָאֹפִֽים׃ the bakers
Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.
Exodus · 3
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Exodus 12:39 וַיֹּאפ֨וּ and they baked
Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
Here: "And they baked." A main storyline verb: this is what happened next, after the people left. The same root gives the word for a baker (Gen 40:1).
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Exodus 16:23 תֹּאפ֞וּ אֵפ֗וּ you will bake, bake
He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”
Here: Baking flat cakes, on hot stones, a griddle or a clay oven. Numbers 11:8 says the manna was ground or pounded and made into cakes.
Leviticus · 5
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Leviticus 6:17 תֵאָפֶה֙ it will be baked
It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
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Leviticus 7:9 תֵּֽאָפֶה֙ it will be baked
Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,
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Leviticus 23:17 תֵּאָפֶ֑ינָה they will be baked
Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
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Leviticus 24:5 וְאָפִיתָ֣ and you will bake
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
Here: The ordinary verb for baking bread in an oven. The loaves are real baked bread, not raw flour or dough set out.
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Leviticus 26:26 וְ֠אָפוּ and they will bake
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Here: "And they will bake." The form carries on the future picture begun by "when I break": this is what will follow.
1 Samuel · 2
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1 Samuel 8:13 וּלְאֹפֽוֹת׃ and to bakers
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
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1 Samuel 28:24 וַתֹּפֵ֖הוּ and she baked it
The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
Isaiah · 2
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Isaiah 44:15 וְאָ֣פָה and he bakes
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread. He also fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
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Isaiah 44:19 אָפִ֤יתִי I baked
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
Here: 'I baked'. This is the everyday baking of flatbread on embers or a hot surface.
Jeremiah · 1
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Jeremiah 37:21 הָאֹפִ֔ים the bakers
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
Here: A participle, 'those who bake', used as a noun. The bakers' street was a trade quarter where commercial bakers worked.
Ezekiel · 1
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Ezekiel 46:20 יֹאפוּ֙ they will bake
and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
Hosea · 2
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Hosea 7:4 מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה from a baker
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
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Hosea 7:6 אֹֽפֵהֶ֔ם baker their
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
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