chala · cake

What it means

chala (חַלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cake”.

A thick, round loaf of bread.

How to say it

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

1. A round, thick bread for offerings.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cakes ×6
• cake ×5
• loaf ×2
• loaves ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×3
• 2 Samuel×1

• Exodus 29:2

  and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil; of fine wheat flour you shall make them.

• Exodus 29:23

  and one round loaf of bread, and one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before YHWH.

• Leviticus 2:4

  When you present a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.

• Leviticus 7:12

  If he presents it for thanksgiving, then he shall present, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and fine flour well mixed, cakes mixed with oil.

• Leviticus 7:13

  With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving.

• Leviticus 8:26

  And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before YHWH he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh.

• Leviticus 24:5

  And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.

• Numbers 6:15

  and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their libations.

• Numbers 6:19

  And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them on the palms of the Nazirite after he has shaved off his consecration.

• Numbers 15:20

  Of the first of your dough you shall set apart a loaf as a contribution; like the contribution of the threshing floor, so you shall set it apart.

• 2 Samuel 6:19

  And he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man to woman, to each one one cake of bread, one portion of meat, and one raisin cake. Then all the people went, each to his house.

And 3 more times.