Strong's Hebrew · H1217

בָּצֵק

bâtsêq · baw-tsake'

dough, flour.

Definition

dough (as swelling by fermentation)

Derivation

from H1216 (בָּצֵק);

Appears 5 times in Scripture

Jeremiah 7:18

The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

Exodus 12:34

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.

2 Samuel 13:8

So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.

Hosea 7:4

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.

Exodus 12:39

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.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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