עֻגָּהʻuggâh
disc or cake of bread, bread-cake (Hosea 7:8; 1 Kings 17:13; 1 Kings 19:6; Ezekiel 4:12; Genesis 18:6)
Pronunciation: oog-gaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5692
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 18:6 So Abraham ran back to the tent and said to Sarah, “Hurry! Get three large measures of your best flour, knead it into dough, and bake some bread.”
- Exodus 12:39 For bread they baked flat cakes from the dough without yeast they had brought from Egypt. It was made without yeast because the people were driven out of Egypt in such a hurry that they had no time to prepare the bread or other food.
- Numbers 11:8 The people would go out and gather it from the ground. They made flour by grinding it with hand mills or pounding it in mortars. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like pastries baked with olive oil.
- 1 Kings 17:13 But Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid! Go ahead and do just what you’ve said, but make a little bread for me first. Then use what’s left to prepare a meal for yourself and your son.
- 1 Kings 19:6 He looked around and there beside his head was some bread baked on hot stones and a jar of water! So he ate and drank and lay down again.
- Ezekiel 4:12 Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.”
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).