מַחֲבַת
machavat · griddle
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4227 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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machavat (מַחֲבַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “griddle”.
A flat pan or griddle for baking cakes.
How to say it
ma·cha·vat
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
- Iron plate over the fire for baking.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Leviticus 2:5
And if your offering is a grain offering on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour, mixed with oil, unleavened.
- Leviticus 6:21
It shall be made on a griddle with oil; you shall bring it well mixed; you shall present the baked pieces of a grain offering of pieces as a pleasing aroma to YHWH.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 23:29
and for the bread of the row, and for the fine flour for the grain offering, and for the unleavened wafers and for what is baked on the griddle and for what is well mixed, and for every measure of capacity and of length;
- Ezekiel 4:3
And you, take for yourself an iron griddle and set it as an iron wall between you and the city, and direct your face toward it, and it will be under siege, and you will besiege it; it is a sign for the house of Israel.