HebrewH3888Verb

לוּשׁ

lush

5Occurrences
H3888Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to knead

a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
(Qal) to knead (dough)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

לוּשׁ appears 5 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
1
2 Samuel
1
Genesis
1
Hosea
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 28:24BSB

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

2 Samuel 13:8BSB

So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.

Genesis 18:6BSB

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

Hosea 7:4BSB

They are all adulterers,like an oven heated by a bakerwho needs not stoke the firefrom the kneading to the rising of the dough.

Jeremiah 7:18BSB

The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

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