Words the Bible translates as loaf
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 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
- kikkarכִּכָּרa round loaf of bread
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- a talent: the largest standard weight, used to measure out gold, silver, or bronze
- a round district: a level circular tract of land, most often the broad valley around the lower Jordan
- ḥallahחַלָּהa round loaf of baked bread shaped by hand, in the Bible almost always one of the flour cakes brought as an offering
- 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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