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shew-bread

shew-bread is the obsolete form of showbread.

Meaning of showbread

Noun

showbread (countable and uncountable, plural showbreads)

  1. (historical) The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table.
    • There is sett on the Board a high heap of Soule-cakes lyeing one upon another like the picture of the Sew-Bread in the old Bibles.1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 23
    Synonyms:
    facebread

Forms of shew-bread

pluralshew-breads

Questions about shew-bread

What is shew-bread the obsolete form of?
Shew-bread is the obsolete form of showbread.

Words near shew-bread in the dictionary

  1. shew breads
  2. shew forth
  3. shew stone
  4. shew stones
  5. shew'd
  6. shew-bread
  7. shewa
  8. shewage
  9. shewanellosis
  10. Sheward
  11. shewas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shew-bread (page history and authors); showbread (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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