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Strong's #644 - אָפָה
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1) to bake
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to bake
1a2) (substantive) baker
1b) (Niphal) to be baked, baked
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1017) pa (אפ AP) AC: ? CO: Nose AB: Anger: The pictograph a represents strength. The p is a picture of the mouth and represents any type of hole. The nostrils (holes) are for breathing.
A) pa (אפ AP) AC: ? CO: Nose AB: ?: The nostrils of man flares when he breathes heavy in passion or anger.
Nm) pa (אפ AP) - I. Nose:The nose and nostrils when written in the plural form. II. Anger:The flaring of the nostrils in anger. III. Moreover:Greater in addition to something else in the sense of passion. [Aramaic only] KJV (297): anger, wrath, face, nostrils, nose, angry, before, also, even, yet, moreover, yea, with, low, therefore, much - Strongs: H637 (אַף), H638 (אַף), H639 (אַף)
H) epa (אפה APH) AC: Bake CO: Oven AB: ?: A heat for baking. The heat of anger.
V) epa (אפה APH) - Bake: The baking of something in an oven. KJV (25): (vf: Paal, Niphal) bake, baker - Strongs: H644 (אָפָה)
am) epam (מאפה MAPH) - Baked: What is baked. KJV (1): baken - Strongs: H3989 (מַאֲפֶה)
J) pfa (אופ AWP) AC: Bake CO: Hot AB: ?: The heat of passion. The heating of foods.
ism) nipfat (תאופינ TAWPYN) - Baked: Something baked. [df: Nypt]KJV (1): baken - Strongs: H8601 (תֻּפִינִים)
M) pia (איפ AYP) AC: ? CO: ? AB: ?: [Unknown meaning;]
Nf1) epia (איפה AYPH) - Ephah: A standard of measure. KJV (40): ephah, measure - Strongs: H374 (אֶפָה)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
) — Qal Perfect, ׳א Genesis 19:3; אָפִיתִי Isaiah 44:19; וְאָפו consecutive Leviticus 26:26 etc.; Imperfect 3 feminine singular suffix וַתֹּפֵהו 1 Samuel 28:24; יאֹפו Ezekiel 46:20; תּאֹפו Exodus 16:23; Imperative אֵפו Exodus 16:23; Participle אֹפֶה Genesis 40:1+; אֹפֵהֶם Hosea 7:6; plural אֹפִים Genesis 40:16 +; אֹפוֺת 1 Samuel 8:13, etc. — bake, object לֶחֶם Leviticus 26:26 (H) Isaiah 44:15,19 (compare Jeremiah 37:21); מַצּוֺת Genesis 19:3 (J) 1 Samuel 28:24 עֻגוֺת מצות Exodus 12:39 (J); חַלּוֺת Leviticus 24:5 (H); מִנְחָה Ezekiel 46:20; מָן Exodus 16:23 (twice in verse). (P; — c 2nd object of material Exodus 12:39 בָּצֵק, Leviticus 24:5 סֹלֶת, 1 Samuel 28:24 קֶמַח). Participle always as substantive baker Genesis 40:1,2,5,16,17,20,22; Genesis 41:10 (all E) Hosea 7:4,6; Jeremiah 37:21 ׳מִחוּץ הָא out of the bakers' street; also 1 Samuel 8:13 ("" טַבָּחוֺת, רַקָּחוֺת only here feminine) Nowhere as a menial office, not even 1 Samuel 8:13 where despotic power & growth of court emphasized.
Niph`al Imperfect 3 feminine singular תֵּאָפֶה Leviticus 6:10; Leviticus 7:9; 3 feminine plural תֵּאָפֶינָה Leviticus 23:17; — passive of
Qal be baked, baken of לֶחֶם Leviticus 23:17; מִנְחָה Leviticus 7:9; compare Leviticus 6:10.
אָפָה imp. אֵפוּ (for אֱפוּ), Exodus 16:23, fut. יאֹפֶה, once וַתֹּפֵהוּ 1 Samuel 28:24.
(1) to cook, to bake, specially bread or cake in an oven. (Chald., Syr. id. Arab. وفى, whence مِيفًى oven. In the western languages, ἕψω, ὁπτάω, πέπτω; Lat. epulœ, epulari), Genesis 19:3; Leviticus 26:26; Isaiah 44:15, 19 Isaiah 44:19. Followed by two accusatives, one of the material, the other of that which is made from it. Leviticus 24:5, וְאָפִיתָ אֹתָהּ שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂוֵה חַלּוֹת “and bake thereof twelve cakes,” compare Lehrgeb. § 219. Part. אֹפֵה a baker, Genesis 40:1. שַׂר הָאֹפִים “chief of the bakers,” a courtier of the king of Egypt (Genesis 40:2, seqq.); a dignity which also exists amongst the Moguls.
(2) to be cooked; hence, complete, whole (Germ. gar fehn). Compare Arab. وفى to be whole, complete; وَفىُِّ whole, complete; وَافيًا wholly, and altogether, ganz und gar. See deriv. אַף No. I. [(2) is omitted in Ges. corr.]
Niphal, to be cooked, baked, Leviticus 6:10, 7:9. Pl. תֵּאָפֶינָה Leviticus 23:17.
Derivs. אַף No. I. [see below], מַאֲפֶה, תֻּפִינִים, and
