Bible Dictionaries
Cake

From Easton: Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of heaven" (Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 44:19).

Pancakes are described in 2 Samuel 13:8, 2 Samuel 13:9. Cakes mingled with oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Leviticus 2:4, and "wafers unleavened anointed with oil," in Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 8:26; 1 Chronicles 23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the Hebrew word _nikuddim_, here used, ought rather to be rendered "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3. The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey.

We read also of honey-cakes (Exodus 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1 Samuel 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings 17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judges 7:13). In Leviticus 2:0 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which were fit for offerings.

Verses:

• Genesis 18:6
• Exodus 12:39
• Exodus 29:2
• Exodus 29:23
• Leviticus 2:4
• Leviticus 7:12
• Leviticus 7:13
• Leviticus 8:26
• Leviticus 24:5
• Numbers 6:15
• Numbers 6:19
• Numbers 11:8
• Numbers 15:20
• Joshua 5:11
• Judges 6:19
• Judges 6:20
• Judges 6:21
• Judges 7:13
• 1 Samuel 25:18
• 1 Samuel 30:12
• 2 Samuel 6:19
• 2 Samuel 13:6
• 2 Samuel 13:8
• 2 Samuel 13:10
• 1 Kings 17:12
• 1 Kings 17:13
• 1 Kings 19:6
• 1 Chronicles 12:40
• 1 Chronicles 16:3
• 1 Chronicles 23:29
• Jeremiah 7:18
• Jeremiah 44:19
• Ezekiel 4:12
• Hosea 3:1
• Hosea 7:8