Words the Bible translates as bread
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- artosἄρτοςbread: the baked loaf that was the everyday staple food, and by extension food and the meal itself
- leḥemלֶחֶםbread: a baked loaf, the physical product of ground grain.
+1 more meaning
- food: sustenance broadly, including meals, livelihood, and the grain supply that keeps people alive.
- uggahעֻגָהa round, flat bread cake cooked straight on hot stones or in the embers of a fire: the quick bread of a household with no oven
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