BREAD

• Called the STAFF OF LIFE Ezek. 4:16, 5:16, 14:13
• KINDS OF
  • Bread of affliction 1 Ki. 22:27; Ps. 127:2; Hos. 9:4; Isa. 30:20
  • Leavened (made with yeast) Lev. 7:13, 23:17; Hos. 7:4; Amos 4:5; Mt. 13:33
  • Unleavened (made without yeast) Gen. 19:3; Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19; 1 Sam. 28:24
  • Made of wheat flour Ex. 29:2; 1 Ki. 4:22, 5:11; Ps. 81:16
    • Manna Num. 11:8
    • Meal 1 Ki. 17:12
    • Barley Judg. 7:13
• HOW PREPARED
  • Mixed with oil Ex. 29:2, 23
    • Honey Ex. 16:31
  • With leaven, or ferment
    • See leavened, in the paragraph above
      • See LEAVEN
  • Kneaded Gen. 18:6; Ex. 8:3, 12:34; 1 Sam. 28:24; 2 Sam. 13:8; Jer. 7:18; Hos. 7:4
  • Made into loaves 1 Sam. 10:3, 17:17, 25:18; 1 Ki. 14:3; Mk. 8:14
    • Cakes 2 Sam. 6:19; 1 Ki. 17:12
    • Wafers Ex. 16:21, 29:23
    • Cracknels 1 Ki. 14:3
  • Baked in ovens Ex. 8:3; Lev. 2:4, 7:9, 11:35, 26:26; Hos. 7:4
    • in pans Lev. 2:5, 7; 2 Sam. 13:6-9
    • on hearths Gen. 18:6
    • on coals 1 Ki. 19:6; Isa. 44:19; Jn. 21:9
    • on coals of dung Ezek. 4:12, 15
• Made by men Gen. 40:2
• Made by women Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13; Jer. 7:18
• Traffic in Jer. 37:21; Mk. 6:37
• Sacrificed Lev. 21:6, 8, 17, 21,22, 22:25; 1 Sam. 2:36; 2 Ki. 23:9
  • By idolaters Jer. 7:18, 44:19
• FIGURATIVE Isa. 55:2; 1 Cor. 10:17; 2 Cor. 9:10
  • Christ Jn. 6:32-35
• SYMBOLICAL
  • Of the body of Christ Mt. 26:26; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 11:23,24
• See SHEWBREAD
• See OFFERINGS