Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
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Bread
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2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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לֶחֶם
lechem · lekh'-em
237 times translated as this KJV form294 total Strong's occurrences
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Strong's KJV usage: (shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 3:19Strong's last: Malachi 1:7
Open full H3899 profile →ἄρτος
ártos · ar'-tos
72 times translated as this KJV form105 total Strong's occurrences
bread (as raised) or a loaf
Strong's KJV usage: :--(shew-)bread, loaf.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 4:3Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 3:12
Open full G740 profile →מַצָּה
matstsâh · mats-tsaw'
33 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences
properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)
Strong's KJV usage: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 19:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 45:21
Open full H4682 profile →ἄζυμος
ázymos · ad'-zoo-mos
7 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
unleavened, i.e. (figuratively) uncorrupted; (in the neutral plural) specially (by implication) the Passover week
Strong's KJV usage: :--unleavened (bread).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:17Strong's last: Acts 20:6
Open full G106 profile →חָמֵץ
châmêts · khaw-mates'
5 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
ferment, (figuratively) extortion
Strong's KJV usage: leaven, leavened (bread).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:15Strong's last: Deuteronomy 16:3
Open full H2557 profile →שְׂאֹר
sᵉʼôr · seh-ore'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
barm or yeast-cake (as swelling by fermentation)
Strong's KJV usage: leaven.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 16:4Strong's last: Deuteronomy 16:4
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H3899
And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
no direct Strong's tag
And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
H4682
And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
H3899
And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
H3899
And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
H4682
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
H4682
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
H3899
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
H3899
And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
H4682
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
H3899
Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
H4682
Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
H3899
And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
no direct Strong's tag
And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
H3899
And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
H3899
And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
H3899
They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
H3899
Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
H3899
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
H3899
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
H3899
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
H3899
Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
H4682
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
H4682
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
H3899
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
English meaning and historical usage.
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bread
BREAD, noun bred. [Gr. anything esculent. If the word signifies food in general, or that which is eaten, probably it is the Heb. and Ch., from barah, to eat or feed.]
1. A mass of dough, made by moistening and kneading the flour or meal of some species of grain, and baked in an oven, or pan.
2. Food in general.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread
Genesis 3:19.
Give us this day our daily bread Lord's Prayer.
3. Support of like in general; maintenance.
Is the reward of virtue, bread?
Bee-bread. [See Bee.]
Ship-bread, bread for ships; hard biscuits.
Cassada-bread. [See Cassada.]
BREAD, verb transitive To spread. [Not used.]
BREAD'-CHIPPER, noun [bread and chip.] One who chips bread; a baker's servant; an under butler.
BREAD'-CORN, noun [bread and corn.] Corn of which bread is made. This in most countries is wheat and rye; but in some countries bread is made of other grain, as of maize in some parts of America.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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