אָפָה
ʼâphâh · aw-faw'
to cook, especially to bake
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to cook, especially to bake
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bake(-r, (-meats)).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to speak, the word › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader that works to speak, the word that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָפָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
25 occurrences · 25 OT · 0 NT · 23 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- baker4 · 16%
- and did bake1 · 4%
- and his baker1 · 4%
- of the bakers1 · 4%
- and the baker1 · 4%
- of bakemeats1 · 4%
- and they baked1 · 4%
- bake1 · 4%
- that which ye will bake1 · 4%
- it shall not be baken1 · 4%
- that is baken1 · 4%
- they shall be baken1 · 4%
- and bake1 · 4%
- shall bake1 · 4%
- and to be bakers1 · 4%
- it, and did bake1 · 4%
- it, and baketh1 · 4%
- yea, also i have baked1 · 4%
- out of the bakers1 · 4%
- where they shall bake1 · 4%
- by the baker1 · 4%
- their baker1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.