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: archive.org: Easton's Bible Dictionary

Bread definition and references: Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Exodus 29:2; Judges 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Genesis 14:18; Judges 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparation (Ruth 2:14).

Bread was prepared by kneading in wooden bowls or 鈥渒neading troughs鈥� (Genesis 18:6; Exodus 12:34; Jeremiah 7:18). The dough was mixed with leaven and made into thin cakes, round or oval, and then baked. The bread eaten at the Passover was always unleavened (Exodus 12:15-20; Deuteronomy 16:3). In the towns there were public ovens, which were much made use of for baking bread; there were also bakers by trade (Hosea 7:4; Jeremiah 37:21). Their ovens were not unlike those of modern times. But sometimes the bread was baked by being placed on the ground that had been heated by a fire, and by covering it with the embers (1 Kings 19:6). This was probably the mode in which Sarah prepared bread on the occasion referred to in Genesis 18:6.

In Leviticus 2 there is an account of the different kinds of bread and cakes used by the Jews. (See Bake.)

The shew-bread (q.v.) consisted of twelve loaves of unleavened bread prepared and presented hot on the golden table every Sabbath. They were square or oblong, and represented the twelve tribes of Israel. The old loaves were removed every Sabbath, and were to be eaten only by the priests in the court of the sanctuary (Exodus 25:30; Leviticus 24:8; 1 Samuel 21:1-6; Matthew 12:4).

The word bread is used figuratively in such expressions as 鈥渂read of sorrows鈥� (Psalms 127:2), 鈥渂read of tears鈥� (80:5), i.e., sorrow and tears are like one鈥檚 daily bread, they form so great a part in life. The bread of 鈥渨ickedness鈥� (Proverbs 4:17) and 鈥渙f deceit鈥� (20:17) denote in like manner that wickedness and deceit are a part of the daily life.

: archive.org: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Bread refers to:鈥擳he preparation of bread as an article of food dates from a very early period. (Genesis 18:6) The corn or grain employed was of various sorts. The best bread was made of wheat, but 鈥渂arley鈥� and spelt were also used. (John 6:9,13; Isaiah 28:25) The process of making bread was as follows: the flour was first mixed with water or milk; it was then kneaded with the hands (in Egypt with the feet also) in a small wooden bowl or 鈥渒neading-trough鈥� until it became dough. (Exodus 12:34,39; 2 Samuel 13:3; Jeremiah 7:18) When the kneading was completed, leaven was generally added [Leaven]; but when the time for preparation was short, it was omitted, and unleavened cakes, hastily baked, were eaten as is still the prevalent custom among the Bedouins. ((Genesis 18:6; 19:3; Exodus 12:39; Judges 6:19; 1 Samuel 28:24) The leavened mass was allowed to stand for some time, (Matthew 13:33; Luke 13:21) the dough was then divided into round cakes, (Exodus 29:23; Judges 7:13; 8:5; 1 Samuel 10:3; Proverbs 6:26) not unlike flat stones in shape and appearance, (Matthew 7:9) comp. Matt 4:8 About a span in diameter and a finger鈥檚 breadth in thickness. In the towns where professional bakers resided, there were no doubt fixed ovens, in shape and size resembling those in use among ourselves; but more usually each household poured a portable oven, consisting of a stone or metal jar, about three feet high which was heated inwardly with wood, (1 Kings 17:12; Isaiah 44:15; Jeremiah 7:18) or dried grass and flower-stalks. (Matthew 6:30)

: archive.org: Nave's Topical Bible

Bread definition and references: 鈥揅alled the Staff Of Life Ezekiel 4:16; 5:16; 14:13
鈥�Kinds Of
鈥揃read of affliction 1 Kings 22:27; Psalms 127:2; Hosea 9:4; Isaiah 30:20
鈥揕eavened (made with yeast) Leviticus 7:13; 23:17; Hosea 7:4; Amos 4:5; Matthew 13:33
鈥揢nleavened (made without yeast) Genesis 19:3; Exodus 29:2; Judges 6:19; 1 Samuel 28:24
鈥揗ade of wheat flour Exodus 29:2; 1 Kings 4:22; 5:11; Psalms 81:16
鈥揗补苍苍补 Numbers 11:8
鈥揗别补濒 1 Kings 17:12
鈥揃补谤濒别测 Judges 7:13
鈥�How Prepared
鈥揗ixed with oil Exodus 29:2,23
鈥揌辞苍别测 Exodus 16:31
鈥揥ith leaven, or ferment
鈥揝别别 leavened, in the paragraph above
鈥揂lso see Leaven
鈥揔苍别补诲别诲 Genesis 18:6; Exodus 8:3; 12:34; 1 Samuel 28:24; 2 Samuel 13:8; Jeremiah 7:18; Hosea 7:4
鈥揗ade into loaves 1 Samuel 10:3; 17:17; 25:18; 1 Kings 14:3; Mark 8:14
鈥揅补办别蝉 2 Samuel 6:19; 1 Kings 17:12
鈥揥补蹿别谤蝉 Exodus 16:21; 29:23
鈥揅谤补肠办苍别濒蝉 1 Kings 14:3
鈥揃aked in ovens Exodus 8:3; Leviticus 2:4; 7:9; 11:35; 26:26; Hosea 7:4
鈥搃n pans Leviticus 2:5,7; 2 Samuel 13:6-9
鈥搊n hearths Genesis 18:6
鈥搊n coals 1 Kings 19:6; Isaiah 44:19; John 21:9
鈥搊n coals of dung Ezekiel 4:12,15
鈥揗ade by men Genesis 40:2
鈥揗ade by women Leviticus 26:26; 1 Samuel 8:13; Jeremiah 7:18
鈥揟raffic in Jeremiah 37:21; Mark 6:37
鈥揝补肠谤颈蹿颈肠别诲 Leviticus 21:6,8,17,21,22; 22:25; 1 Samuel 2:36; 2 Kings 23:9
鈥揃y idolaters Jeremiah 7:18; 44:19
鈥揝别别 Shewbread
鈥揝别别 Offerings
鈥�Figurative Isaiah 55:2; 1 Corinthians 10:17; 2 Corinthians 9:10
鈥揅丑谤颈蝉迟 John 6:32-35
鈥�Symbolical
鈥揙f the body of Christ Matthew 26:26; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:23,24

: archive.org: Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Bread refers to:鈥擳he word 'bread' was of far more extensive meaning among the Hebrews than with us. There are passages in which it appears to be applied to all kinds of victuals (Luke 11:3); but it more generally denotes all kinds of baked and pastry articles of food. It is also used, however, in the more limited sense of bread made from wheat or barley, for rye is little cultivated in the East. Barley being used chiefly by the poor, and for feeding horses [BARLEY]. Bread, in the more limited sense, chiefly denotes the various kinds of cake-like bread prepared from wheaten flour.

Corn is ground daily in the East. After the wheaten flour is taken from the hand-mill, it is made into a dough or paste in a small wooden trough. It is next leavened; after which it is made into thin cakes or flaps, round or oval, and then baked.

The kneading-troughs, in which the dough is prepared, have no resemblance to ours in size or shape, but are small wooden bowls in which only a comparatively small quantity of dough is prepared.

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: archive.org: Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Bread refers to:鈥擣irst undoubtedly mentioned in Genesis 18:6. The best being made of wheat; the inferior of barley, used by the poor, and in scarcity (John 6:9; John 6:13; Revelation 4:6; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:42). An ephah or "three measures" was the amount of meal required for a single baking, answering to the size of the oven (Matthew 13:33). The mistress of the house and even a king's daughter did not think baking beneath them (2 Samuel 13:8). Besides there were public bakers (Hosea 7:4), and in Jerusalem a street tenanted by bakers (Jeremiah 37:21); Nehemiah mentions "the tower of the furnaces," or ovens (Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 12:38). Their loaf was thinner in shape and crisper than ours, from whence comes the phrase, not cutting, but breaking bread (Matthew 14:19; Acts 20:7; Acts 20:11). Exodus 12:34 implies the small size of their kneading troughs, for they were "bound up in their clothes (the outer garment, a large square cloth) upon their shoulders."

As bread was made in thin cakes it soon became dry, as the Gibeonites alleged as to their bread (Joshua 9:12), and so fresh bread was usually baked every day, which usage gives point to "give us day by day our daily bread" (Luke 11:3). When the kneading was completed leaven was added; but when time was short unleavened cakes were hastily baked, as is the present Bedouin usage; termed in Exodus 12:8-20 matsowt , i.e. pure loaves, having no leaven, which ferments the dough and so produces corruption, and is therefore symbol of mortal corruption (1 Corinthians 5:8); therefore excluded from the Passover, as also to commemorate the haste of Israel's departure. Leaven was similarly excluded from sacrifices (Leviticus 2:11).

The leavened dough was sometimes exposed to a moderate heat all night while the baker slept: Hosea 7:4-6; "as an oven heated by the baker who ceaseth from raising (rather, heating) after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened; for they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait ... their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire." Their heart was like an oven first heated by Satan, then left to burn with the pent up fire of their corrupt passions. Like the baker sleeping at night, Satan rests secure that at the first opportunity the hidden fires will break forth, ready to execute whatever evil he suggests.

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