H2751 H2751
white bread/cake (fine quality bread made from refined flour)
Found in Genesis 40:16, 'white bread' (חֹרִי) appears in the chief baker's dream, where he carries three baskets of white bread on his head. The term indicates bread made from refined, sifted flour rather than coarse whole grain, marking it as high-quality bakery product suitable for Pharaoh's court. The whiteness distinguished luxury bread from darker, coarser varieties consumed by common people. Joseph's interpretation of the dream focuses on the three baskets, but the bread quality establishes the baker's high status.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The baker's dream specifies white bread to indicate his responsibility for royal baking, producing refined products for Pharaoh's table. Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings show such fine white bread among offerings to nobility. The term's singular occurrence in this dream narrative makes it a technical culinary designation, distinguishing court bakery work from ordinary bread production. The whiteness signals both the flour refinement process and the social status of the intended consumers. 1×
AR["أَبْيَضَ"]·ben["ছিদ্রযুক্ত"]·DE["weißes-Gebäck"]·EN["white-bread"]·FR["blanc-pain"]·heb["חרי"]·HI["सफ़ेद-रोटी-की"]·ID["putih"]·IT["bianco-pane"]·jav["roti-putih"]·KO["흰-것의"]·PT["branco"]·RU["белых"]·ES["blanco"]·SW["vya-mimba"]·TR["beyaz"]·urd["سفید-روٹی-کی"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. חֹרִי n.[m.] white bread or cake שְׁלֹשָׁה סַלֵּי חֹרִי Gn 40:16 three baskets of white bread.—ii. חֹרִי v. iii. חרר.