Bible Dictionary: Knead

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

To prepare dough in the process of baking (Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel 28:24; Hosea 7:4).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; as, to knead dough; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.

2. (v. t.) Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat.

Greek

1591. ekmasso -- to knead out, by anal. to wipe dry
... 1590, 1591. ekmasso. 1592 . to knead out, by anal. ... Word Origin from
ek and masso (to knead) Definition to knead out, by anal. ...
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631. apomasso -- to wipe off
... wipe off. Middle voice from apo and masso (to squeeze, knead, smear); to scrape
away -- wipe off. see GREEK apo. (apomassometha) -- 1 Occurrence. 630, 631. ...
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5445. phurama -- that which is mixed
... From a prolonged form of phuro (to mix a liquid with a solid; perhaps akin to phuo
through the idea of swelling in bulk), mean to knead; a mass of dough -- lump ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3888. lush -- to knead
... 3887, 3888. lush. 3889 . to knead. Transliteration: lush Phonetic Spelling:
(loosh) Short Definition: knead. Word Origin a prim. ...
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Library

The Exercises Suited to a Good Life.
... For Abraham said to her, "Haste, and knead three measures of meal, and make cakes."
[1660] "And Rachel, the daughter of Laban, came," it is said, "with her ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter x the exercises suited to.htm

Lydda
... When you consider this distance, you may well wonder what that means, which is almost
become a proverb, "The women of Lydda knead their dough, go up to the ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 16 lydda.htm

How Ahab when He had Taken Jezebel to Wife Became More Wicked than ...
... oath that she had at home nothing more than one handful of meal, and a little oil,
and that she was going to gather some sticks, that she might knead it, and ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 13 how ahab when.htm

The Story of the Tower of Babel
... So Abraham hastened to Sarah's tent and said, "Make ready quickly four measures
of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." Abraham also ran to the herd, and took ...
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The Doctrine of the Truth Continued.
... followed Cruice's rendering, refinxisse, while Dr. Wordsworth construes the word
"fashioned." The latter is more literal, as phurao means to knead, though the ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxix the doctrine of the.htm

The Exodus
... He will not stop to knead his dough, and make his bread to carry with him; but he
will carry the unleavened bread on his shoulders, he will be in such a hurry ...
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Greek Plagiarism from the Hebrews.
... Hesiod says of Pandora:". "And bade Hephæstus, famed, with all his speed,.
Knead earth with water, and man's voice and mind. Infuse.". ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xiv greek plagiarism from the.htm

Whether Sufficient Reason Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies ...
... for the Gentiles, on the feasts of the moon, set up a table in front of the idol
of the moon, wherefore it is written (Jer.7:18): "The women knead the dough ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether sufficient reason can be.htm

1 Cor. Iii. 3-Jan
... Their fathers light a fire, their children gather sticks together, their women knead
dough." It is to be feared lest the same kind of thing be said also ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily viii 1 cor iii.htm

Culture and Christianity: their Relation and Necessity.
... There is no just reason why a young lady should not knead her dough and
conjugate a Greek verb at the same time with equal skill. ...
/.../i culture and christianity their relation.htm

Thesaurus

Knead (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; as, to knead dough;
esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed ...
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Dough (15 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour
or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough. ...
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Cakes (65 Occurrences)
... Genesis 18:6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready
three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE ...
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Kneaded (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Knead. Multi-Version Concordance Kneaded
(3 Occurrences). 1 Samuel 28:24 The woman had a fattened calf in the house. ...
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Knavery (2 Occurrences)

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Kindle (25 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out ...
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Wheaten (4 Occurrences)
... Wheaten (4 Occurrences). Genesis 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah,
and said, Knead quickly three seahs of wheaten flour, and make cakes. (DBY). ...
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Flour (69 Occurrences)
... Genesis 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Knead quickly
three seahs of wheaten flour, and make cakes. (DBY YLT NAS NIV). ...
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Flour-meal (1 Occurrence)
... Genesis 18:6 And Abraham hasteth towards the tent, unto Sarah, and saith, 'Hasten
three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes;' (YLT). ...
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Frame (33 Occurrences)
... FRAME. fram: (1) yetser (from root yatsar, "to knead," mold with the fingers):
"For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust" (Psalm 103:14). ...
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Bible Concordance

Knead (2 Occurrences)

Genesis 18:6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Knead

Related Terms

Dough (15 Occurrences)

Cakes (65 Occurrences)

Kneaded (3 Occurrences)

Knavery (2 Occurrences)

Kindle (25 Occurrences)

Wheaten (4 Occurrences)

Flour (69 Occurrences)

Flour-meal (1 Occurrence)

Frame (33 Occurrences)