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Bakemeats (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

Gn b. for I'haraoli' (Heb. Pharaoh's bakers' work'). Dr. Murray {Orf. Eng. Diet.) gives the meaning of b. as simply 'pastry, a pie.' It is any kind of meat baked or cooked: cf. Chaucer, I'rulugiie to Cnnt. Talcs, 345 — * Withoute bake rapte was never hU hoiu Of tleisach and ftssch.' And Shakespeare, ffnm/ef, I. ii. 180 — ' The funeral baked mcata Did coldly furnish forth the marri.ipo tables.' J. HASTINQg.

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Bakemeats

Bakemeats bak'-mets: Only in Ge 40:17 the King James Version and the English Revised Version. "All manner of baked food for Pharaoh" the American Standard Revised Version. Any kind of meat baked or cooked. ⇒See the definition of bakemeats in the KJV Dictionary See BREAD; FOOD. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.

References

  1. Orr, J. (ed.) (1915) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Chicago: Howard-Severance Company. [Public Domain]
  2. Easton, M.G. (1893) Easton's Bible Dictionary. 3rd edn. Thomas Nelson. [Public Domain]
  3. Nave, O.J. (1897) Nave's Topical Bible. Topical Bible Publishing Co.. [Public Domain]
  4. Hastings, J. (ed.) (1909) A Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. [Public Domain]
  5. Smith, W. (ed.) (1884) Smith's Bible Dictionary. London: John Murray. [Public Domain]
  6. Fausset, A.R. (1878) Fausset's Bible Dictionary. [Public Domain]A Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia

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