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Answer for the clue "Hebrew sad about loaves baked for sabbath ", 9 letters:
shewbread

Word definitions for shewbread in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Showbread \Show"bread`\, n. (Jewish Antiq.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530, Tyndale's word (Exodus xxv:30), based on or influenced by German schaubrot (in Luther), literally "show-bread," translating Latin panes propositiones , from Greek artai enopioi , from Hebrew lechem panim , the 12 loaves placed every Sabbath "before ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Twelve loaves of bread placed on the alter in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically. See showbread.

Usage examples of shewbread.

It was the location of the table of shewbread, the lamps, and the altar of incense.

I felt I was floating in air, borne up by the beauty of it, looking down upon the altar, down into the cup of crimson wine, down upon shewbread and antique knife.