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Showbread

Show′breadˊ

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Noun.
(Jewish Antiq.)
Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; – the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.
[Written also
shewbread
.]
Mark ii. 26.

Definition 2024


showbread

showbread

English

Noun

showbread (plural showbreads)

  1. The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table.

Alternative forms

Related terms

  • the bread of the Presence
  • the continual bread
  • the layer bread
  • Holy bread
  • the bread of presentation