- a variation of shewbread.
showbread
Britishnoun
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It is said that the stems have been boiled and eaten, and found quite palatable; but this would seem to the lover of the beautiful like eating the showbread from the ark of Nature's tabernacle.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
They spread the veils, And set the loaves of showbread on the table.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christ makes particular mention of the matter in Matthew 12, 3-4, where David and his companions ate the holy showbread.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker
When David and his companions had no food with which to still their hunger they ate the showbread which lay-people were forbidden to eat.
From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Theodore Graebner
The table of showbread and the altar of incense glittered like burnished gold.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White
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