Strong H3888לוּשׁ
to knead
- Transliteration
- lûsh
- Pronunciation
- loosh
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to knead: - knead.
Detailed definition
(Qal) to knead (dough)
In the Bible
Strong H3888 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- knead5
First verses
- Genesis 18:6And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
- 1 Samuel 28:24And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
- 2 Samuel 13:8So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
- Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
- Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.