[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/cake.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / cake [← C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/C/) # cake «cake» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a sweet baked food made of flour, eggs, sugar and butter…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (cake, cakes); verb (cake, caked — covered thickly) ### meaning for a pupil 1) A cake is a sweet baked food made of flour, eggs, sugar and butter, often for birthdays and parties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#m1) 2) A cake can be a flat round piece of other food: a fish cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#m2) 3) To be caked in mud is to be thickly covered in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah cakes were made of fine flour and were used in offerings, such as unleavened cakes, or as food, as when Sarah baked for her guests. Interpretation: The twelve cakes of the showbread were set out each Sabbath in the holy tent. The rabbis saw in them the twelve tribes before God. In the primary lessons: a thing counted, made and sold by a baker, or cut into equal pieces; cakes are good for fractions: half a cake, a quarter of a cake; phrases: «a piece of cake» (very easy), «birthday cake», «bake a cake», «cupcake» ### examples - With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving. (Torah LEV.7.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x1) - And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. (Torah LEV.24.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x2) - And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.' (Torah GEN.18.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x3) - Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned. (Prophets HOS.7.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x4) - And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x5) - And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand. (Prophets 1SA.10.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x6) - The baker made 110 cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x7) - He sold 75 cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x8) - A cake is cut into 8 pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x9) - How many more cakes than pastries did he sell? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x10) - We baked a chocolate cake for Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x11) - Can I have a piece of cake? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x12) - The test was a piece of cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x13) - His boots were caked in mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x14) - The cakes were smoking on the hearth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x15) ### note Countable (a cake, cakes) and uncountable (some cake). A thing counted. «made» adds, «sold» or «ate» takes away; «cut into N pieces» makes equal parts. Trap: cakes and pastries are counted apart. «a piece of cake» can mean «very easy». ### In the corpora - [With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.147/) - [And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.713/) - [And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.232/) - [And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.346/) - [Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.94/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «cake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.