lush · knead

What it means

lush (לוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “knead”.

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. Work dough by hand to make bread.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• knead ×2
• kneaded it ×2
• kneading ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 18:6

  So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, three seahs of flour, fine flour! Knead it and make cakes.”

• 1 Samuel 28:24

  The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she hurried and sacrificed it; she took flour, kneaded it, and baked it into unleavened bread.

• 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.