\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 on the golden table in the
sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were
changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number,
represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be
eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written
also {shewbread}.] --Mark ii. 26.