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Definition of Showbread
1. n. Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.
Definition of Showbread
1. Noun. The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Showbread
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Literary usage of Showbread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... to the south, which surrounded the palace itself> while the state buildings—hall
of justice, throne-room, and house The Table of showbread С 1). ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock (1880)
"In •_' Chron. iv, 19 we have mention of "the tables whereon the showbread was
set," and at ver. 8 we read of Solomon making ten tables. ..."
3. History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week by John Nevins Andrews (1912)
"... Jericho — The standing still of the sun — David's act of eating the showbread —
The Sabbath of the Lord, how connected with, and how distinguished from, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"... The Table of showbread ({ 1). The Candlestick ({ 2). Other Articles (a :>,).
V. Other Hebrew Temples. of Lebanon, lying farther south—were surrounded ..."
5. Return to the Fountainhead of the Faith: Explore World Ideologies, Church by Shelley Wood Gauld (2007)
"(Ps. 16:7) In this exploration of the Holy Place, we will move in the Hebrew
manner—right to left—from the table of showbread, to the altar of incense, ..."
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