רָקִיק
ra.qiq
flatbread
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word רָקִיק (ra.qiq) is a term used to describe flatbread, appearing eight times in the Bible. Its definition is straightforward, indicating a type of food. As a part of the semantic domain of Food & Drink, its primary significance is tied to sustenance and nourishment. The frequency of its appearance suggests that flatbread held a noticeable place in ancient Hebrew cuisine. Its usage is primarily in the realm of everyday life, rather than in symbolic or ritual contexts. This implies that flatbread was a staple food item in ancient Hebrew culture, consumed regularly rather than reserved for special occasions or ceremonial purposes.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
8 total occurrences across the text
unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Exodus 29:23and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
Leviticus 2:4“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Leviticus 7:12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.
Leviticus 8:26and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
Numbers 6:15a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.
Numbers 6:19The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;
1 Chronicles 23:29for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;