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shewbread

shewbread is the obsolete spelling 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 shewbread

pluralshewbreads

Origin of shewbread

From shew + bread.

Questions about shewbread

What is shewbread the obsolete spelling of?
Shewbread is the obsolete spelling of showbread.

Words near shewbread in the dictionary

  1. shewa
  2. shewage
  3. shewanellosis
  4. Sheward
  5. shewas
  6. shewbread
  7. shewbreads
  8. Shewchuk
  9. Shewchuks
  10. shewe
  11. shewed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shewbread (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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