Wafer
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).
