afa · bake

What it means

afa (אָפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bake”.

Bread; as a noun, "baker".

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. To prepare bread and bake it in the oven; the one who does it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• baked ×7
• bakers ×7
• bake ×5
• baker ×5
• bakes ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×5
• 1 Samuel×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×2

• Genesis 19:3

  But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

• Genesis 40:1

  It happened after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the baker sinned against their lord, the king of Egypt.

• Genesis 40:2

  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers,

• Genesis 40:5

  And the two of them dreamed a dream, each his own dream, in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream: the cupbearer and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison.

• Genesis 40:16

  When the chief of the bakers saw that he had interpreted well, he said to Joseph, “In my dream I too saw, and look, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

• Genesis 40:17

  In the top basket there was every kind of food for Pharaoh, the work of a baker, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

• Genesis 40:20

  On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.

• Genesis 40:22

  but the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, me and the chief of the bakers.

• 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.

• Exodus 16:23

  He said to them, “This is what YHWH has said: ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to YHWH. What you will bake, bake; and what you will boil, boil; and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’ ”

• Leviticus 6:17

  It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion from my fire offerings; it is a most holy thing, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering.

• Leviticus 7:9

  And every grain offering that is baked in the oven, and every one made in the pan or on a griddle, shall belong to the priest who presents it, to him.

• Leviticus 23:17

  From your dwellings you shall bring two loaves for a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as first fruits to YHWH.

• 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.

• Leviticus 26:26

  When I break for you the staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and give back your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

• 1 Samuel 8:13

  Your daughters he will take as perfumers and cooks and bakers.

• 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.

• Isaiah 44:15

  And it serves a human being for burning; he takes some of them and warms himself; also he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and bows down; he makes it a carved image and falls down before it.

• Isaiah 44:19

  And he does not bring it back to his heart, and there is no knowledge nor understanding to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire, and also I baked on its coals bread; I roast meat and eat; and the rest of it shall I make into an abomination? Before a block of wood shall I fall down?”

• Jeremiah 37:21

  And King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard, and they gave him a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was used up. So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard.

• Ezekiel 46:20

  And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the grain offering, so as not to bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”

• 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.

• Hosea 7:6

  For they have brought near their heart like an oven in their plotting; all night their baker sleeps; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

And 1 more times.