BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G5445
phurama — lump
φύραμα, -τος, τό (φυράω, to mix), [in LXX: Exo.8:3 (Exo.7:28) Exo.12:34 (מִשְׁאֶרֶת), מִשְׁאֶרֶת), Num.15:20-21 (עֲרִיסָה) * ;] that which is mixed or kneaded, a lump: of dough, Rom.11:16, 1Co.5:6-7, Gal.5:9; of clay, Rom.9:21.† (AS)
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3888
lush — to knead
(Qal) to knead (dough)
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4863
mish.e.ret — kneading
kneading trough or bowl
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6182
a.ri.sah — dough
1) dough, meal, coarse meal, kneading trough 1a) meaning uncertain
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H442
a.lush — Alush
§ Alush = "I will knead (bread)" a wilderness encampment following the Exodus
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7182
heliktos — kneaded
1. curved, twisted, wreathed , (Homeric Hymns); ἑλ. κύτος a wheeled ark, (Euripides); σῦριγξ περὶ χεῖλος ἑλικτά moving quickly , (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) 2. metaphorically tortuous , (Euripides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9288
sumphurō — to blend together
to knead together: beat black and blue , (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus):—;Pass., (Euripides); ψυχὴ συμπέφυρται μετὰ τοῦ κακοῦ (Plato Philosophus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9681
phuraō — to mix up
1. to mix flour or meal so as to make it into dough, to knead , (Herdotus Historicus); γῆν φυράσειν φόνῳ to make earth into a bloody paste , (Aeschulus Tragicus):—;Pass., οἴνῳ καὶ ἐλαίῳ πεφυραμένα ἄλφιτα (Thucydides) 2. metaphorically, μαλακὴν φωνὴν φυράσασθαι to make up a soft voice, (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →To prepare dough in the process of baking (Gen. 18:6; 1 Sam. 28:24; Hos. 7:4).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
