H3561 H3561
sacrificial cakes made for the worship of the Queen of Heaven
These ritual cakes appear exclusively in Jeremiah's condemnation of idolatrous worship. The term is likely a Babylonian loan-word from kamānu, referring to cakes used in Ishtar worship. The practice involved whole families in preparing these offerings for 'the Queen of Heaven,' a syncretistic cult practice that drew prophetic rebuke. The Hebrew root suggests preparation or arrangement, fitting the careful ritual production of cultic offerings.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Ritual cakes baked as offerings to the Queen of Heaven (a foreign goddess, likely Ishtar). Both references in Jeremiah describe family involvement in this condemned practice. The Babylonian connection suggests these were shaped or decorated cakes following patterns from Mesopotamian worship, representing a significant departure from YHWH worship that Jeremiah explicitly challenges. 2×
AR["كَعْكًا"]·ben["পিঠা", "পিঠাগুলি"]·DE["[כונים]"]·EN["cakes"]·FR["[כונים]"]·heb["כוונים"]·HI["केक", "रोटियाँ"]·ID["kue-kue", "roti-roti-bundar"]·IT["[כונים]"]·jav["jajan-kupu", "roti"]·KO["과자들을"]·PT["bolos"]·RU["пироги"]·ES["tortas"]·SW["mikate"]·TR["pideler", "çörekleri"]·urd["روٹیاں", "کیک"]
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
† [כַּוָּן] n.[m.] cake, sacrificial cake (?√ כון; cf. Hiph. 2. a. prepare food, etc. prob. Bab. loan-word, from kamânu, cake used in worship of Ištar, ZimKAT 3, 441.)—only pl. abs. לַעֲשׂוֹת כַּוָּנִים לִמְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם Je 7:18; עָשִׂינוּ לָהּ כ׳ לְהַעֲצִבָהֿ 44:19.