To prepare dough in the process of baking (Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel 28:24; Hosea 7:4).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; as, to knead dough; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.

2. (v. t.) Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat.