Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2471
חַלָּה
challahkhal-law'
bun
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: challâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2471is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2471
a cake (as usually punctured)
The King James renders it: cake.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
challah is rendered "bun". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 29:2along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
Exodus 29:2וְחַלֹּ֤ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's fourteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- round perforated breads3
- and a cake of2
- round perforated breads of2
- a cake1
- a cake of1
- a round perforated bread of1
- and a round perforated bread of1
- and cakes of1
- cakes1
- the round perforated bread1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חַלָּמִישׁ | challamish | flint | Uses5 |
| חַלָּק | challaq | smooth | Uses1 |
| חַלָּשׁ | challash | weak | Uses1 |
| חַלָּמוּת | challamuth | mallow | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְֽחַלַּ֨ת2
- חַלּ֤וֹת2
- חַלֹּת֙2
- הַֽחַלָּ֥ה1
- וְחַלֹּ֤ת1
- וַֽחַלַּ֨ת1
- חַלָּ֖ה1
- חַלּ֑וֹת1
- חַלַּ֨ת1
- חַלַּ֥ת1
- חַלֹּ֖ת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural4HNcfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HC/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfpc
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
two uses
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- וְחַלֹּ֤תvechalotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and cakes of
along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
- וַֽחַלַּ֨תvachalatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a cake of
Leviticus
eight uses
Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- חַלּ֤וֹתchalotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: round perforated breads of
If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
- חַלּ֤וֹתchalotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: round perforated breads of
- חַלֹּ֖תchalotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: round perforated breads
Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
- חַלֹּת֙chalotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: round perforated breads
And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
- חַלַּ֨תchalatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a round perforated bread of
- וְֽחַלַּ֨תvechalatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a round perforated bread of
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
- חַלּ֑וֹתchalotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: round perforated breads
- הַֽחַלָּ֥הhachalahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the round perforated bread
Numbers
three uses
together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- חַלֹּת֙chalotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cakes
And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.
- וְֽחַלַּ֨תvechalatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a cake of
From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
- חַלָּ֖הchalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cake
2 Samuel
one use
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
- חַלַּ֥תchalatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a cake of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.