כַּוָּן
kavan · cake
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3561 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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kavan (כַּוָּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cake”.
A cake prepared as an offering (to the queen of the heavens).
How to say it
ka·van
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
- Sweet bread made as an offering to a goddess.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 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.
- Jeremiah 44:19
“And when we burn incense to the queen of the heavens and pour out libations to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her cakes to make her image and poured out libations to her?”