English
Noun
en-noun|shew-bread

1. Twelve loaves of bread placed on the alter 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)

Alternative spellings
shew bread
shewbread
showbread

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