Bible Dictionary: Loaf

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.

2. (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.

3. (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

LOAF

lof.

See BREAD.

Greek

740. artos -- bread, a loaf
... bread, a loaf. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: artos Phonetic Spelling:
(ar'-tos) Short Definition: bread, a loaf, food Definition: bread, a ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3603. kikkar -- a round, a round district, a round loaf, a round ...
... kikkar. 3604 . a round, a round district, a round loaf, a round weight, a talent
(a measure of weight or money). ... loaf, morsel, piece, plain, talent. ...
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6742. tselul -- a cake, round loaf
... 6741, 6742. tselul or tselil. 6743 . a cake, round loaf. Transliteration: tselul
or tselil Phonetic Spelling: (tsel-ool') Short Definition: loaf. ...
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3899. lechem -- bread, food
... something (1). showbread, eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. From lacham;
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain ...
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4682. matstsah -- unleavened bread or cake
... for sweetness; properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (ie Not soured or bittered
with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the ...
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Library

But one Loaf Mk 8:14
... MARK Hymn 94 But one loaf Mk 8:14. John Newton 8,6,8,6. But one loaf [11] Mk 8:14.
When the disciples crossed the lake. With but one loaf on board; ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney hymns/hymn 94 but one loaf.htm

How St Clare, by Order of the Pope, Blessed the Bread which was on ...
... OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHAPTER XXXIII HOW ST CLARE, BY ORDER OF THE POPE, BLESSED
THE BREAD WHICH WAS ON THE TABLE, AND HOW ON EACH LOAF APPEARED THE SIGN ...
/.../the little flowers of st francis of assisi/chapter xxxiii how st clare.htm

A Battle Without a Sword
... A round loaf of barley (the commonest kind of bread) was dreamed of as rolling down
from a height and upsetting 'the tent.' The use of the definite article ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a battle without a sword.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke xi. 5, "Which of You Shall have a ...
... For "there abide these three, faith, hope, charity; but the greatest of these is
charity." [3347] In those loaves it is not said that any one loaf was greater ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon lv on the words.htm

But this New Cloudy Political Cowardice Has Rendered Useless the ...
... Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern
statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 3 but this new.htm

The Holy Things are not to be Sent into Other Dioceses at the ...
... It is known that the Greeks only consecrate a square piece of the little loaf intended
for communion, which is first cut out with the so-called holy spear. ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xiv the holy things.htm

Waiting the Father's Word.
... But Jesus was keener than the tempter was cunning. "Get a loaf out of this stone.
Don't go hungry. ... Jesus could have made a loaf out of the stone. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks about jesus/waiting the fathers word.htm

The "Sayings" of Pythagoras.
... For it lies within your reach both to nourish the body, and make the soul better.
[667] "Don't take a bite out of an uncut loaf;" (meaning,) diminish not thy ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxii the sayings of pythagoras.htm

Acts XX
... (7) "And on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break
the loaf, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the next day, and ...
/.../mcgarvey/a commentary on acts of the apostles/acts xx.htm

Meditation viii. Institution of the Holy Eucharist.
... An oval plate stood there, with three fine white azymous loaves, placed on a piece
of linen, by the side of the half loaf which Jesus had set aside during the ...
/.../meditation viii institution of the.htm

Thesaurus

Loaf (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. 3. (vt) To spend in
idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away. Int. ...LOAF. lof. See BREAD. ...
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Cake (25 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin
loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. ...
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Loaves (54 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Plural of Loaf. 2. (n.) pl. of Loaf.
Multi-Version Concordance Loaves (54 Occurrences). Matthew ...
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Partake (19 Occurrences)
... (Root in KJV DBY WBS YLT). 1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread,
we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. ...
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Scorpion (6 Occurrences)
... scorpions," and again in Luke 11:12 He says, "Or if he shall ask an egg, will he
give him a scorpion?" Note that we have here three doublets, the loaf and the ...
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Pentecost (3 Occurrences)
... Exodus 34:22 Numbers 28:26 Deuteronomy 16:10). The size of each loaf was
fixed by law. It must contain the tenth of an ephah, about ...
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Share (138 Occurrences)
... (WEY RSV NIV). 1 Corinthians 10:17 Since there is one loaf, we who are many
are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf. (WEY). ...
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Present (577 Occurrences)
... gift. (See NAS). Matthew 7:9 Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may
ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him? (YLT). Matthew ...
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Loads (12 Occurrences)

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Bread (433 Occurrences)
... (3) Often the thin, glutinous loaf, puffed out with air ... 5. Forms of Baked Bread:
(1) The large pone or thick, light loaf of the West is unknown in the East. ...
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Bible Concordance

Loaf (14 Occurrences)

Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone;
(ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Mark 8:14 They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one loaf in the boat with them.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 11:11 And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?
(ASV YLT)

Luke 22:19 And having taken a loaf, when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
(DBY)

Acts 27:35 And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.
(DBY)

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing, which we bless, does it not mean a joint-participation in the blood of Christ? The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of Christ?
(WEY)

1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
(WEB WEY DBY NIV)

Exodus 29:23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 24:5 "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
(See NIV)

Judges 7:13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."
(See NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 2:36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)

1 Chronicles 16:3 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 6:26 for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.
(DBY JPS NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Loaf

Related Terms

Cake (25 Occurrences)

Loaves (54 Occurrences)

Partake (19 Occurrences)

Scorpion (6 Occurrences)

Pentecost (3 Occurrences)

Share (138 Occurrences)

Present (577 Occurrences)

Loads (12 Occurrences)

Bread (433 Occurrences)