uga · flat cake

What it means

uga (עֻגָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flat cake”.

Round, thin loaf baked on hot stones.

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 flat loaf baked on coals.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cake ×4
• cakes ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Ezekiel×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.”

• 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.

• Numbers 11:8

  The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

• 1 Kings 17:13

  Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid. Go in, do as you have said; only make me from it a small cake first, and bring it out to me, and for yourself and for your son you shall make some afterward.

• 1 Kings 19:6

  He looked, and there, at his head, was a cake baked on hot stones and a jug of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

• Ezekiel 4:12

  And as a barley cake you will eat it; and it you will bake on dung of human excrement before their eyes.”

• Hosea 7:8

  Ephraim mixes himself among the peoples; Ephraim has become a cake not turned over.