Definitions for shewbread

shewbread shew·bread

Spelling: [shoh-bred]
IPA: /ˈʃoʊˌbrɛd/

Shewbread is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 436 anagrams from letters in shewbread (abdeehrsw).

Definitions for shewbread

noun

  1. the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.

Origin of shewbread

1530; shew + bread, modeled on German Schaubrot, which renders Greek ártoi enṓpioi, translation of Hebrew leḥem pānīm

Examples for shewbread

The shewbread, laid on the table in rows of twelve cakes, was eaten by Aaron and his sons.

He also asked for five sacred loaves of shewbread, which no one dared to eat except the priests.

But there were no lamps to give light; there was no shewbread for food.

The shewbread was consecrated, but he approved the taking of it to satisfy human hunger.

Enoch calls the shewbread of the second Temple polluted and unclean.

Such were the cakes of shewbread, the meal and drink offerings, the first sheaf at Passover, the two loaves at Pentecost.

The altar within the Temple and the table of shewbread were likewise covered with the same precious metal.

No one, was the saucy answer; theres no kail in the kirks; then with a laugh, The ministers eat all the shewbread.

In view of the condition of urgent need the priest had given the shewbread to the hungry men.

But did not David eat of the shewbread in pressing circumstances?

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