shewbreadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

shew +‎ bread

名詞

shew bread (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 shew breads)

1. Twelve loaves of bread placed on the altar in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Chronicles 2:4:

     Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

名詞

shew-bread (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 shew-breads)

1. Twelve loaves of bread placed on the altar in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically. See showbread.
   • 1658: a long sided quadrate [...] was the figure of the Ark of the Covenant, the table of the Shew-bread, and the stone wherein the names of the twelve Tribes were engraved — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 177)