חַלָּהchallâh
a cake (as usually punctured)
Pronunciation: khal-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2471
Meanings
a kind of cake, used in offerings
1. at the sacrifice of David on removal of ark (2 Samuel 6:19)
2. elsewhere (Leviticus 24:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 29:2 Then, using choice wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers spread with oil.
- Exodus 29:23 Then take one round loaf of bread, one thin cake mixed with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of bread without yeast that was placed in the Lord’s presence.
- Leviticus 2:4 “If your offering is a grain offering baked in an oven, it must be made of choice flour, but without any yeast. It may be presented in the form of thin cakes mixed with olive oil or wafers spread with olive oil.
- Leviticus 7:12 If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast—thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with olive oil.
- Leviticus 7:13 This peace offering of thanksgiving must also be accompanied by loaves of bread made with yeast.
- Leviticus 8:26 On top of these he placed a thin cake of bread made without yeast, a cake of bread mixed with olive oil, and a wafer spread with olive oil. All these were taken from the basket of bread made without yeast that was placed in the Lord’s presence.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).