חַלָּה challah
Hebrew word for “bun” · Strong’s H2471 · used 14 times in 11 verses
Meaning
cake, cake (if pierced) (probably perforated)
How it is translated
Glosses given for challah in context, with how often each is used:
- round perforated breads 5
- cake 4
- round perforated bread 3
- cakes 2
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 29 (2), Leviticus 7 (2), Numbers 6 (2), Leviticus 2 (1), Leviticus 8 (1), Leviticus 24 (1), Numbers 15 (1), 2 Samuel 6 (1)
Forms
- חלת 5
- וחלת 4
- חלות 3
- החלה 1
- חלה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with challah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- רָקִיק raqiq “flatbread” 7
- מַצָּה matstsah “unleavened bread” 7
- סֹלֶת solet “fine flour” 5
- סַל sal “basket” 4
- שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 6
- בָּלַל balal “to mix” 4
- מָשַׁח mashach “to anoint” 4
- לֶחֶם lechem “food” 5
- אֶחָד echad “one” 5
- קָרַב qarav “to present” 3
- תּוֹדָה todah “thanksgiving” 2
- קׇרְבָּן qorban “offering” 2
Key verses
The verses using challah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 29:2 — And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 29:23 — And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
- Leviticus 2:4 — And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed…
- Leviticus 7:12 — If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed…
- Leviticus 7:13 — Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
- Leviticus 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 on the…
- Leviticus 24:5 — And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
- Numbers 6:15 — And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their…
- Numbers 6:19 — And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the…
- Numbers 15:20 — Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
- 2 Samuel 6:19 — And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of…
See all 11 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.