אָפָהʼâphâh
bake
Pronunciation: aw-faw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H644
Meanings
Qal: baker (Genesis 19:3; Isaiah 44:19; Leviticus 26:26)
Niph`al: be baked, baken, passive of Qal (Leviticus 6:10; Leviticus 7:9; Leviticus 23:17)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:3 But Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate.
- Genesis 40:1 Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master.
- Genesis 40:2 Pharaoh became angry with these two officials,
- Genesis 40:5 While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning.
- Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.
- Genesis 40:17 The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”
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).