showbread
noun
showbread is a noun meaning “The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-H-O-W-B-R-E-A-D, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of showbread is showbreads.
What does showbread mean?
noun
- 1
The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of showbread
- showbreads plural
- show bread
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is showbread?
Showbread appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does showbread come from?
From show + bread.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).