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Bread
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Bread (bred). Genesis 14:18. The bread of the better class of Jews was generally made of wheat; barley and other grains were sometimes used. Judges 7:13. The materials were prepared as in modern times in the East. The process of kneading it was performed in kneading-troughs, Genesis 18:6; Exodus 12:34; Jeremiah 7:18, or wooden bowls, such as the Arabians use at this day for a like purpose. It has been supposed by some that the kneading was done upon a circular piece of leather, such as is now used in Persia, and which would be more properly called a kneading-bag, as it draws up like a knapsack. Either of the utensils would be easily transported. Very simple leaven was used in the dough. The loaves were shaped like a plate, and, when leavened, were ordinarily of the thickness of one's little finger. The unleavened bread was very thin, and was broken, not cut. Lamentations 4:4; Matthew 14:19; Matthew 15:36; Matthew 26:26. It has been said that the thickness or thinness of the loaves was regulated by the time they were to be kept; that which was to be kept longest being made thick, that it might retain its moisture. This is contrary to modern philosophy on this subject, as we see in the manufacture of ship bread For the mode of baking see Oven. The term bread is often used for food or provisions in general.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Bread'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/b/bread.html. 1893.
