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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_193791" /> ==
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman [[Catholic]] Church. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, - used in sealing letters and other documents. </p>
       
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17474" /> ==
<p> A thin cake made of fine flour, &nbsp;Exodus 16:31 , and used in carious offerings, anointed with sweet oil, &nbsp;Exodus 29:2,23; &nbsp;Leviticus 2:4; &nbsp;7:12; &nbsp;Numbers 6:15 . </p>
       
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_64149" /> ==
<p> [[Wafer]] n. </p> 1. A thin cake or leaf as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist. 2. A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried used in sealing letters. <p> WAFER, To seal or close with a wafer. </p>
       
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54677" /> ==
<p> <strong> WAFER </strong> . See Bread, end. </p>
       
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_65401" /> ==
<p> is the rendering, in the A. V., of '''''צְפַיחַת''''' , ''Tsephichith'' (from '''''צָפִח''''' , ''To Flatten'' ) '','' a ''Pancake'' (&nbsp;Exodus 16:31), and of '''''רָקַיק''''' , ''Rakik'' (from '''''רָקִק''''' , ''To Make Thin'' ) '','' a [[Cake]] (29:2, 23; &nbsp;Leviticus 2:4; &nbsp;Leviticus 7:12; &nbsp;Leviticus 8:26; &nbsp;Numbers 6:15; &nbsp;Numbers 6:19; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 23:29). (See [[Bake]]). We learn from the above passages that such thin cakes made of fine flour, usually without leaven, and anointed with oil, were used by the Hebrews in connection with their offerings. (See [[Sacrifice]]). The custom, to some extent, is still maintained by the Jews. (See [[Passover]]). </p>
       
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Wafer <ref name="term_65393" />
<ref name="term_193791"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/wafer Wafer from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
<p> in ecclesiastical terminology, is the bread used in the eucharist by the Romanists and Lutherans. In the ancient Church, so long as the people continued to make oblations of bread and wine, the elements for the use of the eucharist were taken out of them; and, consequently, so long was the common leavened bread in ordinary use employed for that purpose. The use of wafers and unleavened bread was not known in the Church until the 11th century. It has been conjectured that the change crept in from the people's leaving off their oblations, and the clergy being compelled to provide the bread themselves. Under pretence of decency and respect, they changed it from leaven to unleaven, and from a loaf that might be broken, to a nice and delicate wafer, which was formed in: the figure of a denarius, or penny, either to represent the pence for which our [[Savior]] was betrayed, or because the people, instead of offering a loaf of bread as formerly, were ordered to offer a penny, which was to be expended upon something pertaining to the sacrifice of the altar. This alteration in the eucharistical bread occasioned great disputes between the Eastern and Western churches, which separated about it; the Western Church going so far to the extreme as almost to lose the nature of the sacramental element by introducing a thing that could hardly be called bread, instead of that which our Lord had appointed to be the representative of his body in the eucharist. The wafer now in use in the Roman Church is a small thin portion of unleavened-bread, bearing upon it either the figure of Christ or the initials I. H. S. In the Church of [[England]] wafers have been used from the earliest times of Christianity, and are still not uncommonly used; but the rubric of the present Prayer-book maintains that the best and purest wheaten bread that may be conveniently obtained will suffice. </p>
       
 
<ref name="term_17474"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/wafer Wafer from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref>
== References ==
       
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<ref name="term_64149"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/wafer Wafer from King James Dictionary]</ref>
<ref name="term_65393"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/wafer+(2) Wafer from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_54677"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/wafer Wafer from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_65401"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/wafer Wafer from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
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Latest revision as of 17:34, 15 October 2021

Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.

(2): ( v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.

(3): ( n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.

(4): ( n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, - used in sealing letters and other documents.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [2]

A thin cake made of fine flour,  Exodus 16:31 , and used in carious offerings, anointed with sweet oil,  Exodus 29:2,23;  Leviticus 2:4;  7:12;  Numbers 6:15 .

King James Dictionary [3]

Wafer n.

1. A thin cake or leaf as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist. 2. A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried used in sealing letters.

WAFER, To seal or close with a wafer.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]

WAFER . See Bread, end.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]

is the rendering, in the A. V., of צְפַיחַת , Tsephichith (from צָפִח , To Flatten ) , a Pancake ( Exodus 16:31), and of רָקַיק , Rakik (from רָקִק , To Make Thin ) , a Cake (29:2, 23;  Leviticus 2:4;  Leviticus 7:12;  Leviticus 8:26;  Numbers 6:15;  Numbers 6:19;  1 Chronicles 23:29). (See Bake). We learn from the above passages that such thin cakes made of fine flour, usually without leaven, and anointed with oil, were used by the Hebrews in connection with their offerings. (See Sacrifice). The custom, to some extent, is still maintained by the Jews. (See Passover).

References

  1. ↑ Wafer from Webster's Dictionary
  2. ↑ Wafer from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
  3. ↑ Wafer from King James Dictionary
  4. ↑ Wafer from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
  5. ↑ Wafer from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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