Bible Dictionary: Wafer

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ATS Bible Dictionary

Wafer

A thin cake made of fine flour, Exodus 16:31, and used in carious offerings, anointed with sweet oil, Exodus 29:2,23; Le 2:4; 7:12; Numbers 6:15.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.

2. (n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.

3. (n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.

4. (v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

WAFER

wa'-fer.

See BREAD.

Strong's Hebrew

7550. raqiq -- thin cake, wafer
... 7549, 7550. raqiq. 7551 . thin cake, wafer. Transliteration: raqiq Phonetic
Spelling: (raw-keek') Short Definition: wafers. ... cake, wafer. ...
/hebrew/7550.htm - 6k

6838. tsappichith -- a flat cake, wafer
... 6837, 6838. tsappichith. 6839 . a flat cake, wafer. Transliteration: tsappichith
Phonetic Spelling: (tsap-pee-kheeth') Short Definition: wafers. ... wafer. ...
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3561. kavvan -- a cake, sacrificial cake
... cake. From kuwn; something prepared, ie A sacrificial wafer -- cake. see HEBREW
kuwn. 3560, 3561. kavvan. 3562 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Holy Things are not to be Sent into Other Dioceses at the ...
... He starts from the fact that, with the Greeks as well as the Latins, the wafer intended
for communion is generally called sancta or hagia even before the ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xiv the holy things.htm

A Word from the Beloved's Own Mouth. "And Ye are Clean. " --John ...
... This utterance of our Saviour to His disciples has been as a wafer made with honey
to our taste, and we doubt not it may prove equally as sweet to others. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/till he come/a word from the beloveds.htm

A New Year's Benediction
... from it, and then desire my people to remember it through the year as a staff of
support in their time of trouble, as some sweet morsel, a wafer made with honey ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/a new years benediction.htm

The Downfall, 1616-1621.
... the services; and, in open defiance of the law of the land, the priests drove
Protestants with dogs and scourges to the Mass, and thrust the wafer down their ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter xiv the downfall 1616-1621.htm

Who was Nicholas?
... and more than all, that he should teach an ordained priest, who had power to bind
and loose, and to work the great miracle which changed the wafer and the wine ...
/.../bevan/three friends of god/chapter iv who was nicholas.htm

The Brandenburg Confessions.
... rejects the Lutheran doctrine of the ubiquity of Christ's body, and exorcism in
baptism as a superstitious ceremony, and the use of the wafer instead of the ...
/.../ 70 the brandenburg confessions.htm

Now Follows the Practice of Piety in Dying for the Lord.
... 21. That Christ's flesh was made of the seed of David, by incarnation; not
of a wafer cake by transubstantiation (Romans 1:3.). 22. ...
/.../bayly/the practice of piety/now follows the practice of.htm

The Lawful and Unlawful Use of Law.
... To tremble before a consecrated wafer is spurious reverence. To bend before
the Majesty of Right is Christian reverence. Thirdly. ...
/.../robertson/sermons preached at brighton/xix the lawful and unlawful.htm

Marah; Or, the Bitter Waters Sweetened
... Secondly, these evils assume varied shapes. You noticed that for the first three
days in the wilderness they found no wafer; that is one trial. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/marah or the bitter waters.htm

A Jealous God
... has been moved with indignation like that of Paul on Mars' Hill, when he saw the
city wholly to idolatry; I have seen thousands adore the wafer, hundreds bow ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 9 1863/a jealous god.htm

Thesaurus

Wafer (3 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To seal or close with a wafer. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WAFER.
wa'-fer. See BREAD. Multi-Version Concordance Wafer (3 Occurrences). ...
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Cake (25 Occurrences)
... any size or shape. 3. (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a
griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. 4. (n.) A mass ...
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Seal (47 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed
or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal. ...
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Unleavened (51 Occurrences)
... 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. ...
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Yeast (48 Occurrences)
... (See 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. (See NIV). ...
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Oiled (2 Occurrences)
... Oiled (2 Occurrences). 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. ...
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Basket (40 Occurrences)
... 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. ...
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Wafers (6 Occurrences)

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Mixed (96 Occurrences)
... (WEB BBE NAS RSV 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. ...
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Shoulder (72 Occurrences)
... 8:26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took
one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them ...
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Bible Concordance

Wafer (3 Occurrences)

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 NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 8:26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 6:19 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Wafer

Wafer: General Scriptures Concerning

Related Terms

Cake (25 Occurrences)

Seal (47 Occurrences)

Unleavened (51 Occurrences)

Yeast (48 Occurrences)

Oiled (2 Occurrences)

Basket (40 Occurrences)

Wafers (6 Occurrences)

Mixed (96 Occurrences)