Bread
114 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
67 sections
- (Eating Without Scarceness) of Plenty
- (Fulness of) of Abundance
- (Of Adversity) Heavy Affliction
- (Of Deceit) Unlawful Gain
- (Of Idleness) Sloth
- (Of Tears) Sorrow
- (Of Wickedness) Oppression
- (Partaking of) Communion of Saints
- (Seeking of Begging) Extreme Poverty
- (Want of) Extreme Poverty
- (When Broken) the Death of Christ
- Barley
- Broken for Use
- Called the Staff of Life
- Christ
- Corn Ground for Making
- Crumb of, Used to Wipe the Fingers, Thrown Under the Table
- Figurative
- First Fruit of, offered to God
- Given by God
- How Prepared in Pans
- How Prepared: Baked in Ovens
- How Prepared: Cakes
- How Prepared: Cracknels
- How Prepared: Honey
- How Prepared: Kneaded
- How Prepared: Made Into Loaves
- How Prepared: Mixed with Oil
- How Prepared: On Coals
- How Prepared: On Coals of Dung
- How Prepared: On Hearths
- How Prepared: Wafers
- Kept in Baskets
- Kinds of Bread of Affliction
- Kinds of Leavened (Made with Yeast)
- Kinds of Unleavened (Made Without Yeast)
- Made by Men
- Made by Women
- Made of Barley
- Made of Beans, Millet
- Made of Manna (In the Wilderness)
- Made of Wheat
- Made of Wheat Flour
- Making of, a Trade
- Manna
- Meal
- Multitudes Miraculously Fed by Christ With
- Nutritious and Strengthening
- Offered with Sacrifices
- Often Given As a Present
- Often Put for the Whole Substance of Man
- Ordinary, Called Common Bread
- Placed on Table of Shew Bread
- Plenty of, Promised to the Obedient
- Publicly Sold
- Sacred, Called Hallowed Bread
- Sacrificed
- Scarceness of, Sent As a Punishment
- Served Round After Funerals
- Sometimes Unleavened
- Symbolical of the Body of Christ
- The Principal Food Used by the Ancients
- Traffic In
- Troughs Used for Kneading
- Usually Leavened
- when Old, Dry and Mouldy
- Yielded by the Earth
(Eating Without Scarceness) of Plenty
- Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
(Fulness of) of Abundance
- Ezekiel 16:49 Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
(Of Adversity) Heavy Affliction
- Isaiah 30:20 The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself — with your own eyes you will see Him.
(Of Deceit) Unlawful Gain
- Proverbs 20:17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
(Of Idleness) Sloth
- Proverbs 31:27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
(Of Tears) Sorrow
- Psalm 80:5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
(Of Wickedness) Oppression
- Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
(Partaking of) Communion of Saints
- Acts 2:46 With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
- 1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
(Seeking of Begging) Extreme Poverty
- 1 Samuel 2:36 And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- Psalm 37:25 I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
- Lamentations 1:11 All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
(Want of) Extreme Poverty
- Proverbs 12:9 Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.
- Isaiah 3:7 On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
(When Broken) the Death of Christ
- Matthew 26:26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:23–24 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, …
Barley
- Judges 7:13 And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and …
Broken for Use
- Lamentations 4:4 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
- Matthew 14:19 And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
Called the Staff of Life
- Ezekiel 4:16 Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
- Ezekiel 5:16 When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
- Ezekiel 14:13 “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
Christ
- John 6:32–35 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. …
Corn Ground for Making
- Isaiah 28:28 Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
Crumb of, Used to Wipe the Fingers, Thrown Under the Table
- Matthew 15:27 “Yes, Lord,” she said, “even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
- Luke 16:21 and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Figurative
- Isaiah 55:2 Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
- 1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
- 2 Corinthians 9:10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
First Fruit of, offered to God
- Numbers 15:19–20 and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD. …
Given by God
- Ruth 1:6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
- Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
How Prepared in Pans
- Leviticus 2:5 If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.
- Leviticus 2:7 If your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it must consist of fine flour with oil.
- 2 Samuel 13:6–9 So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.” …
How Prepared: Baked in Ovens
- Exodus 8:3 The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
- Leviticus 2:4 Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- Leviticus 7:9 Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,
- Leviticus 11:35 Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.
- Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
How Prepared: Cakes
- 2 Samuel 6:19 Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
- 1 Kings 17:12 But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread— only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, …
How Prepared: Cracknels
- 1 Kings 14:3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”
How Prepared: Honey
- Exodus 16:31 Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
How Prepared: Kneaded
- Genesis 18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
- Exodus 8:3 The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
- Exodus 12:34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
- 1 Samuel 28:24 The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
- 2 Samuel 13:8 So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
- Jeremiah 7:18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
- Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
How Prepared: Made Into Loaves
- 1 Samuel 10:3 Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- 1 Samuel 17:17 One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 1 Kings 14:3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”
- Mark 8:14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.
How Prepared: Mixed with Oil
- Exodus 29:2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- Exodus 29:23 along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
How Prepared: On Coals
- 1 Kings 19:6 And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
- Isaiah 44:19 And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? …
- John 21:9 When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.
How Prepared: On Coals of Dung
- Ezekiel 4:12 And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”
- Ezekiel 4:15 “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
How Prepared: On Hearths
- Genesis 18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
How Prepared: Wafers
- Exodus 16:21 Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
- Exodus 29:23 along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
Kept in Baskets
- Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
- Exodus 29:32 At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
Kinds of Bread of Affliction
- 1 Kings 22:27 and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- Psalm 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat — for He gives sleep to His beloved.
- Hosea 9:4 They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter …
- Isaiah 30:20 The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself — with your own eyes you will see Him.
Kinds of Leavened (Made with Yeast)
- Leviticus 7:13 Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
- Leviticus 23:17 Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
- Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
- Amos 4:5 Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
- Matthew 13:33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
Kinds of Unleavened (Made Without Yeast)
- Genesis 19:3 But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- Exodus 29:2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- Judges 6:19 So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
- 1 Samuel 28:24 The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
Made by Men
- Genesis 40:2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
Made by Women
- Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- 1 Samuel 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
- Jeremiah 7:18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Made of Barley
- Judges 7:13 And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and …
- John 6:9 “Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”
Made of Beans, Millet
- Ezekiel 4:9 But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
Made of Manna (In the Wilderness)
- Numbers 11:8 The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
Made of Wheat
- Exodus 29:2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- Psalm 81:16 But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
Made of Wheat Flour
- Exodus 29:2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- 1 Kings 4:22 Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 1 Kings 5:11 and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
- Psalm 81:16 But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
Making of, a Trade
- Genesis 40:2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
- Jeremiah 37:21 So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard …
Manna
- Numbers 11:8 The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
Meal
- 1 Kings 17:12 But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread— only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, …
Multitudes Miraculously Fed by Christ With
- Matthew 14:19–21 And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. …
- Matthew 15:34–37 “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.” …
Nutritious and Strengthening
- Psalm 104:15 wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
Offered with Sacrifices
- Exodus 29:2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- Exodus 29:23 along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
- Numbers 28:2 “Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My food offerings, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
Often Given As a Present
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 2 Samuel 16:12 Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- 1 Chronicles 12:40 And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen— abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there …
Often Put for the Whole Substance of Man
- Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground — because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Genesis 39:6 So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
- Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Ordinary, Called Common Bread
- 1 Samuel 21:4 “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread — provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
Placed on Table of Shew Bread
- Exodus 25:30 And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
Plenty of, Promised to the Obedient
- Leviticus 26:5 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
Publicly Sold
- Matthew 14:15 When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
- Matthew 15:33 The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”
Sacred, Called Hallowed Bread
- 1 Samuel 21:4 “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread — provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
- 1 Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Sacrificed
- Leviticus 21:6 They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.
- Leviticus 21:8 You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy — I who set you apart.
- Leviticus 21:17 “Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
- Leviticus 21:21–22 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the food offerings to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God. …
- Leviticus 22:25 Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”
- 1 Samuel 2:36 And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- 2 Kings 23:9 Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
Scarceness of, Sent As a Punishment
- Psalm 105:16 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
- Isaiah 3:1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
- Ezekiel 5:16 When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
Served Round After Funerals
- Ezekiel 24:17–22 Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.” …
Sometimes Unleavened
- Exodus 12:18 In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- 1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
Symbolical of the Body of Christ
- Matthew 26:26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
- Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.
- 1 Corinthians 11:23–24 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, …
The Principal Food Used by the Ancients
- Genesis 18:5 And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
- Genesis 21:14 Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 27:17 Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
- Judges 19:5 On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”
Traffic In
- Jeremiah 37:21 So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard …
- Mark 6:37 But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”
Troughs Used for Kneading
- Exodus 12:34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
Usually Leavened
- Leviticus 23:17 Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
- Matthew 13:33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
when Old, Dry and Mouldy
- Joshua 9:5 They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
- Joshua 9:12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But look, it is now dry and moldy.
Yielded by the Earth
- Job 28:5 Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
- Isaiah 55:10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Related topics
Bread was Formed IntoBread was BakedBread was KneadedBread by IdolatersBread in Times of Scarcity, Sold by WeightBread was Baked in Ovens
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.