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Hebrew verb · H644

אָפָה

aphahaw-faw'

to bake

25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼâphâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H644is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 23
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H644

to cook, especially to bake

The King James renders it: bake(-r, (-meats)).

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

aphah is rendered "to bake". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:3But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.

The first use

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.

Genesis 19:3אָפָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's twenty-five uses are in Genesis.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the bakers6
  • and the baker2
  • it will be baked2
  • a baker1
  • and he bakes1
  • and she baked it1
  • and they baked1
  • and they will bake1
  • and to bakers1
  • and you will bake1
  • bake1
  • baker their1

and 6 more, 25 uses in all

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.

The words it stands beside

All 25, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

23 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

  • הָאֹפִ֖ים3
  • אָפָ֖ה1
  • אֹפֶ֑ה1
  • אֹֽפֵהֶ֔ם1
  • אֵפ֗וּ1
  • אָפִ֤יתִי1
  • הָאוֹפִֽים׃1
  • הָאֹפִ֔ים1
  • הָאֹפִֽים׃1
  • וְאָ֣פָה1
  • וְ֠אָפוּ1
  • וְאָפִיתָ֣1

and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural6HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Td/Ncmsa
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVNi3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural1HC/R/Ncfpa
  • Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
  • Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
  • Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3fs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqw3fs/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa

Genesis

nine uses
  • 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.

    Genesis 19:3

    • אָפָ֖הʾafahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he baked
  • Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

    Genesis 40:1

    • וְהָאֹפֶ֑הvehaopehconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the baker
  • Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

    Genesis 40:2

    • הָאוֹפִֽים׃haofimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bakers
  • 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.

    Genesis 40:5

    • וְהָאֹפֶ֗הvehaopehconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the baker
  • 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.

    Genesis 40:16

    • הָאֹפִ֖יםhaofimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bakers
  • 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.”

    Genesis 40:17

    • אֹפֶ֑הʾopehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a baker
  • 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.

    Genesis 40:20

    • הָאֹפִ֖יםhaofimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bakers
  • But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.

    Genesis 40:22

    • הָאֹפִ֖יםhaofimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: 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.

    Genesis 41:10

    • הָאֹפִֽים׃haofimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bakers

Exodus

three uses
  • 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.

    Exodus 12:39

    • וַיֹּאפ֨וּvaiyofuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they baked
  • 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.’”

    Exodus 16:23

    • תֹּאפ֞וּtofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will bake
    • אֵפ֗וּʾefuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bake

Leviticus

five uses
  • It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My offerings made by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

    Leviticus 6:17

    • תֵאָפֶה֙teapehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: 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,

    Leviticus 7:9

    • תֵּֽאָפֶה֙teapehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it 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.

    Leviticus 23:17

    • תֵּאָפֶ֑ינָהteafeinahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will be baked
  • You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

    Leviticus 24:5

    • וְאָפִיתָ֣veafitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you 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.

    Leviticus 26:26

    • וְ֠אָפוּveafuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will bake

1 Samuel

two uses
  • And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

    1 Samuel 8:13

    • וּלְאֹפֽוֹת׃uleofotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and to bakers
  • The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

    1 Samuel 28:24

    • וַתֹּפֵ֖הוּvatofehuHc/Vqw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she baked it

Isaiah

two uses
  • It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

    Isaiah 44:15

    • וְאָ֣פָהveafahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he bakes
  • 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?”

    Isaiah 44:19

    • אָפִ֤יתִיʾafitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I baked

Jeremiah

one use
  • 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.

    Jeremiah 37:21

    • הָאֹפִ֔יםhaofimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bakers

Ezekiel

one use
  • 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.”

    Ezekiel 46:20

    • יֹאפוּ֙yofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will bake

Hosea

two uses
  • 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.

    Hosea 7:4

    • מֵֽאֹפֶ֑הmeopehpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from a baker
  • 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.

    Hosea 7:6

    • אֹֽפֵהֶ֔םʾofehemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: baker their

The letters

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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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