בָּצֵק
batsek · dough
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1217 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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batsek (בָּצֵק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dough”.
Bread dough.
How to say it
ba·tsek
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Flour mixed with water for making bread.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 12:34
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
- Exodus 12:39
They baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread, for it was not leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.
- 2 Samuel 13:8
Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, and he was lying down. She took the dough and kneaded it and made cakes before his eyes and cooked the cakes.
- Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens; and they pour out libations to other gods to provoke me to anger.
- Hosea 7:4
All of them are adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.