1 Chronicles 23:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּלְלֶ֨חֶם הַֽמַּעֲרֶ֜כֶת וּלְסֹ֤לֶת לְמִנְחָה֙ וְלִרְקִיקֵ֣י הַמַּצּ֔וֹת וְלַֽמַּחֲבַ֖ת וְלַמֻּרְבָּ֑כֶת וּלְכָל־מְשׂוּרָ֖ה וּמִדָּֽה׃

Transliteration

And-for-leḥem the-maʿăreḵeṯ and-for-sōleṯ for-minḥāh and-for-rəqîqê the-maṣṣôṯ and-for-the-maḥăḇaṯ and-for-the-murbāḵeṯ and-for-all-məśûrāh and-middāh

Grammar Details

• *leḥem*: noun, masculine singular - bread
• *maʿăreḵeṯ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the arrangement
• *sōleṯ*: noun, feminine singular - fine flour
• *minḥāh*: noun, feminine singular - offering
• *rəqîqê*: noun, masculine plural construct - wafers of
• *maṣṣôṯ*: noun, feminine plural with definite article - the unleavened bread
• *maḥăḇaṯ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the pan/griddle
• *murbāḵeṯ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the mixed/saturated
• *məśûrāh*: noun, feminine singular - measure
• *middāh*: noun, feminine singular - measurement

Word Meanings

• *leḥem* *maʿăreḵeṯ*: showbread, bread of arrangement, arranged bread
• *murbāḵeṯ*: that which is mixed with oil, well-mixed offering

Referenced Verses

• Lev 19:35-36 : 35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures. 36 Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
• Lev 24:5-9 : 5 And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake. 6 And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord. 7 And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 8 Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever. 9 And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.
• Exod 25:30 : 30 And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.
• Lev 2:4-7 : 4 And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil. 5 And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil. 6 Let it be broken into bits, and put oil on it; it is a meal offering. 7 And if your offering is of meal cooked in fat over the fire, let it be made of the best meal mixed with oil.
• Lev 6:20-23 : 20 Anyone touching the flesh of it will be holy: and if any of the blood is dropped on any clothing, the thing on which the blood has been dropped is to be washed in a holy place. 21 But the vessel of earth in which the flesh was cooked is to be broken; or if a brass vessel was used, it is to be rubbed clean and washed out with water. 22 Every male among the priests may take it for his food: it is most holy. 23 No sin-offering, the blood of which is taken into the Tent of meeting, to take away sin in the holy place, may be used for food: it is to be burned with fire.
• Lev 7:9 : 9 And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered.
• Num 3:50 : 50 From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;
• 1 Kgs 7:48 : 48 And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed;
• 1 Chr 9:29-34 : 29 And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices. 30 And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices. 31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes. 32 And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath. 33 And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night. 34 These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 13:11 : 11 By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.
• 2 Chr 29:18 : 18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, We have made all the house of the Lord clean, as well as the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the table for the holy bread, with all its vessels.
• Neh 10:33 : 33 For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
• Matt 12:4 : 4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?
• Heb 9:2 : 2 For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.