38 Bible Verses about Bread

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John 6:51

I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.

Ezekiel 4:9

And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and give them into one vessel, and make them to thee for bread, the number of days which thou didst lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it

Matthew 7:9

Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone?

1 Corinthians 11:27

Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord.

Luke 11:11

And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone ? and if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent.

Luke 11:5

And he said to them, Which. of you shall have a friend, and shall-go to him at midnight, and should say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

Luke 9:16

And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up to heaven, be praised them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.

John 6:31

Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Joshua 9:12

This the hot bread we took it for food from our houses in the day we came forth to come to you; and now, behold, it dry, and it was crumbs

Ecclesiastes 11:1

Send forth thy bread upon the face of the waters, for in a multitude of days thou shalt find it

Matthew 15:26

And he, having answered, said, It is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs.

1 Corinthians 11:23

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread:

Proverbs 30:8

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

1 Kings 17:13

And Elijah will say to her, Thou shalt not fear; go and do according to thy word: but make to me from thence a little cake at first, and bring forth to me, and for thee and for thy son thou shalt make at last

Deuteronomy 8:3

And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days coming, says the Lord Jehovah, and I sent famine into the land; not a faniine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.

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Bread » Hallowed

Numbers 4:7

And upon the table of the face they shall spread a garment cerulean purple, and they gave upon it the dishes, and the censers, and the bowls and the cups pouring out: and the continual bread shall be upon it.

Exodus 25:30

Give upon the table the bread of the face before me continually.

1 Samuel 21:6

And the priest will give to him the holy, for there was not there bread except the bread of the face, being taken away from before Jehovah to put hot bread in the day of taking it

1 Chronicles 9:32

And from the sons of the Kohathites, from their brethren over the bread of arrangement to prepare the Sabbath, Sabbath.

Bread » General references to

2 Kings 4:42

And a man came from the lord of three, and he will bring to the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty of bread of barley, and garden fruits in his sack; and he will say, Give to the people, and they shall eat

1 Samuel 16:20

And Jesse will take a heap of bread and a sack of wine, and one kid of the goats, and he will send by the hand of David his son to Saul.

Genesis 18:5

And I will take a bit of food, and strengthen your heart, afterwards ye shall pass away; for, for this ye passed over to your servant And they will say, Thou shalt do according to what thou saidst

Bread » Baking of

1 Samuel 28:24

And to the woman a calf of the stall in the house; she will haste and sacrifice it, and take flour and knead and bake it unleavened.

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

Exodus 16:23

And he will say to them, This what Jehovah spake, To-morrow the Sabbath, a holy rest to Jehovah: what ye will cook, cook; and what ye will boil, boil; and all exceeding, leave for you for preservation till the morning.

Leviticus 2:4

And when thou shalt bring an offering, a gift, a baking of the oven, fine flour of unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil.

Leviticus 26:26

In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.

More verses: 1 Kings 19:6 Isaiah 44:15

Bread » How prepared » Kneaded

Hosea 7:4

All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.

1 Samuel 28:24

And to the woman a calf of the stall in the house; she will haste and sacrifice it, and take flour and knead and bake it unleavened.

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

Jeremiah 7:18

The sons are gathering up woods, and the fathers kindling the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens, and to pour out libations to other gods, to irritate me.

Exodus 8:3

And the river abounded with frogs, and they went up and came into thy house, and into the chamber of thy bed, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs:

Bread » Breaking of

Matthew 14:19

And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.

Acts 27:35

And having said these, and having taken bread, he returned thanks to God before all: and having broken, he began to eat.

Luke 24:30

And it was in his reclining at table with them, having taken bread, he praised, and having broken, bestowed upon them.

Acts 20:11

And having gone up, and broken bread, and tasted, and conversed for a sufficient time, till the light, so he went forth.

Bread » The principal food used by the ancients

Genesis 21:14

And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and take food, and a leathern bottle of water, and give to Hagar (putting upon her shoulder), and the child, and will send her away: and she will go forth and wander in the desert to the well of the oath.

Genesis 18:5

And I will take a bit of food, and strengthen your heart, afterwards ye shall pass away; for, for this ye passed over to your servant And they will say, Thou shalt do according to what thou saidst

Genesis 27:17

And she will give the dainties, and the bread which she made, into the hand of Jacob her son.

Judges 19:5

And it will be in the fourth day, and they will rise early in the morning, and he will rise up to go: and the girl's father will say to his son-in-law, Strengthen thine heart with a bit of bread, and afterward ye shall go.

Bread » Often given as a present

1 Samuel 25:18

And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses.

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps Jehovah will look upon my wrong, and Jehovah turn back to me good for his cursing this day.

1 Chronicles 12:40

And also those being near to them, even to Issachar, and Zebulon, and Naphtali, bringing bread upon asses and upon camels, and upon mules, and upon oxen; food of flour, round cakes, and dried grapes, and wine and oil, and oxen and sheep for multitude: for joy in Israel.

Bread » Illustrative » (seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty

1 Samuel 2:36

And it was all being left in thy house shall go to worship to him for a piece of silver and a round of bread; and he said, Add me to one of the priesthoods to eat a morsel of bread.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sighing, seeking bread; they gave from their delights for food to turn back the soul: see, O Jehovah, and regard; for I was despised.

Bread » Sacrificed

1 Samuel 2:36

And it was all being left in thy house shall go to worship to him for a piece of silver and a round of bread; and he said, Add me to one of the priesthoods to eat a morsel of bread.

Leviticus 21:6

They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy.

Leviticus 21:8

And he consecrated him, for he bringing the bread of thy God: holy shall he be to thee: for I Jehovah consecrating you am holy,

Leviticus 21:17

Speak to Aaron saying, A man from thy seed according to their generations, to whom shall be in him a blemish, shall not come near to bring the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21:21-22

Any man to whom in him a blemish from the seed of Aaron the priest, shall not come near to bring the sacrifices of Jehovah: a blemish is in him, the bread of his God he shall not come near to bring. The bread of his God the holy of holies, and from the holies shall he eat.

Bread » How prepared » Made into loaves

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse will say to David his son, Take now to thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and this ten of bread, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

1 Samuel 25:18

And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses.

1 Samuel 10:3

And pass on from thence and beyond, and thou camest to the oak of Tabor, there three men shall find thee going up to God, to the house of God, one lifting up three kids and one lifting up three rounds of bread, and one lifting up a skin of wine.

1 Kings 14:3

And take in thy hand ten of bread and crumb cakes, and a bottle of honey, and go to him: he will announce to thee what will be to the boy.

Mark 8:14

And they forgot to take loaves, and had not but one loaf with them in the ship.

Bread » How prepared » Baked in ovens

Hosea 7:4

All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.

Leviticus 2:4

And when thou shalt bring an offering, a gift, a baking of the oven, fine flour of unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil.

Leviticus 26:26

In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.

Exodus 8:3

And the river abounded with frogs, and they went up and came into thy house, and into the chamber of thy bed, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs:

Leviticus 7:9

And every gift which shall be baked in an oven, and all being done in a pot and upon the frying-pan, to the priest bringing it, to him it shall be.

More verses: Leviticus 11:35

Bread » Staff of life

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, if a land shall sin against me to cover a transgression, and I stretched forth my hands upon it, and I broke to it the staff of bread, and sent famine upon it, and I cut off from it man and cattle:

Ezekiel 5:16

In my sending the evil arrows of famine upon them which were for destruction, which I shall send to destroy you: and I will add famine upon you, and I broke to you the staff of bread.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment

Bread » Kinds of » Leavened (made with yeast)

Hosea 7:4

All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.

Leviticus 7:13

With the cakes, leavened bread he shall bring, an offering upon the sacrifice of praise of his peace.

Leviticus 23:17

From your dwellings shall ye bring two loaves lifted up, of two tenths of fine flour shall they be; leavened shall they be, baked, the first-fruits to Jehovah.

Amos 4:5

And burn incense from leaven, a thanksgiving, and call; cause the free will offerings to be heard: for thus ye loved ye sons of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

Bread » Often put for the whole sustenance of man

Genesis 39:6

And he will let go all which is to him into the hand of Joseph; and he will not, know anything except the bread which he is eating: and Joseph will be fair of form, and fair of look.

Bread » Kinds of » Bread of affliction

Isaiah 30:20

And Jehovah gave to you the bread of straits and the waters of oppression, and he will no more cover those teaching thee, and thine eyes shall be seeing those teaching thee:

1 Kings 22:27

And say, Thus said the king, Put this in the house of shutting up, and cause him to eat the bread of oppression and the waters of oppression till my coming in peace.

Hosea 9:4

They shall not pour out wine to Jehovah, and they shall not be pleasant to him: their sacrifices as the bread of sorrows to them; all eating it shall be defiled: for their bread for their soul shall not come in to the house of Jehovah.

Bread » Scarceness of, sent as a punishment

Ezekiel 5:16

In my sending the evil arrows of famine upon them which were for destruction, which I shall send to destroy you: and I will add famine upon you, and I broke to you the staff of bread.

Psalm 105:16

And he will call a famine upon the land: he broke all the support of bread.

Isaiah 3:1

For behold, the Lord Jehovah of armies taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay, and the stay, all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water.

Bread » Was kneaded

Hosea 7:4

All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

Jeremiah 7:18

The sons are gathering up woods, and the fathers kindling the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens, and to pour out libations to other gods, to irritate me.

Bread » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the death of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:23-24

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread: And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance.

Bread » Kinds of » Unleavened (made without yeast)

1 Samuel 28:24

And to the woman a calf of the stall in the house; she will haste and sacrifice it, and take flour and knead and bake it unleavened.

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, poured over with oil, and thin unleavened cakes, anointed with oil: of fine flour of wheat thou shalt make them.

Genesis 19:3

And he will press upon them greatly; and they will turn aside to him, and they will come in to his house; and he will make to them a drinking, and he baked unleavened loaves, and they will eat

Judges 6:19

And Gideon went in, and he will do a kid of the goats, and an ephah of flour of unleavened: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and he will bring forth to him under the oak and will bring near.

Bread » Multitudes miraculously fed by Christ with

Matthew 14:19-21

And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up the remaining of fragments, twelve baskets full. And they eating were five thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 15:34-37

And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. And he encouraged the crowd to recline upon the earth. And having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having returned thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd. read more.
And all ate, and were satisfied: and they took up that remaining of the fragments seven wicker baskets full.

Bread » Made of wheat flour

1 Kings 5:11

And Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand cons of wheat food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil: thus Solomon will give to Hiram year by year.

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, poured over with oil, and thin unleavened cakes, anointed with oil: of fine flour of wheat thou shalt make them.

1 Kings 4:22

And the bread of Solomon for one day will be thirty cors of fine flour, and sixty cors of meal,

Psalm 81:16

And he shall cause them to eat from the fat of wheat, and from the rock with honey will I satisfy thee.

Bread » Symbolical » Of the body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:23-24

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread: And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance.

Acts 20:7

And in one of the sabbaths, the disciples having been assembled together to break bread, Paul conversed with them being about to go forth the morrow; and he continued the word until midnight.

Bread » Sometimes unleavened

Exodus 12:18

In the first, in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened till the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth.

Bread » Broken for use

Matthew 14:19

And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them.

Bread » Illustrative » (partaking of,) of communion of saints

Bread » Usually leavened

Leviticus 23:17

From your dwellings shall ye bring two loaves lifted up, of two tenths of fine flour shall they be; leavened shall they be, baked, the first-fruits to Jehovah.

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

Bread » How prepared » On coals

1 Kings 19:6

And he will look, and behold, from his head cakes baked on hot stones, and a cruse of water: and he will eat and drink, and turn back and lie down.

Isaiah 44:19

And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood?

John 21:9

When therefore they came away to the land, they see a heap of burning coals laid, and little fish laid upon, and bread.

Bread » Figurative

Isaiah 55:2

Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

Bread » In times of scarcity, sold by weight

Leviticus 26:26

In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment

Bread » Was formed into » Cakes

2 Samuel 6:19

And he will distribute to all the people to every sort of Israel, from man and even to woman, to each one cake of bread, and one measure, and one cake: and all the people will go each to his house.

1 Kings 17:13

And Elijah will say to her, Thou shalt not fear; go and do according to thy word: but make to me from thence a little cake at first, and bring forth to me, and for thee and for thy son thou shalt make at last

Bread » Was baked » In ovens

Leviticus 26:26

In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.

Hosea 7:4-7

All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening. The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers. For they drew near their heart as a furnace in their lying in wait: all the night their baker slept; in the morning it burnt as the fire of flame. read more.
They were all hot as a furnace, and they consumed their judges; all their kings fell: none among them calling to me.

Bread » Made by women

1 Samuel 8:13

And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.

Leviticus 26:26

In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.

Jeremiah 7:18

The sons are gathering up woods, and the fathers kindling the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens, and to pour out libations to other gods, to irritate me.

Bread » Sacred, called hallowed bread

1 Samuel 21:6

And the priest will give to him the holy, for there was not there bread except the bread of the face, being taken away from before Jehovah to put hot bread in the day of taking it

1 Samuel 21:4

And the priest will answer David and say, No common bread under my hand, but there is consecrated bread; if the boys watched themselves only from women.

Bread » Making of, a trade

Jeremiah 37:21

And king Zedekiah will command, and they will commit Jeremiah to the enclosure of the prison, and giving to him a round of bread for the day from the street of the baker's, till all the bread was consumed out of the city. And Jeremiah dwelt in the enclosure of the prison.

Genesis 40:2

And Pharaoh will be angry against his two eunuchs, against the chief of the cup-bearers, and against the chief of the bakers.

Bread » Publicly sold

Matthew 14:15

And being evening, his disciples came to him, saying, It is a desert place, and the time has passed already; loose the crowds, that, having gone into towns, they might purchase food for themselves.

Matthew 15:33

And his disciples say to him, Whence to us, in a lonely place, so many loaves, to satisfy such a crowd I

Bread » Kept in baskets

Genesis 40:16

And the chief of the bakers see that he interpreted good, and he will say to Joseph, I also in my dream, and behold, three wicker-baskets of white bread upon my head.

Exodus 29:32

And Aaron shall eat and his sons, the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the of appointment

Bread » Was formed into » Wafers

Exodus 16:31

And the house of Israel will call its name portion: as the seed of coriander, white, and its taste as a flat cake with honey.

Exodus 29:23

And one round of bread, and one cake of fat bread, and one thin cake from the basket of the unleavened that is before. Jehovah.

Bread » Illustrative » (want of,) of extreme poverty

Proverbs 12:9

He is good being despised, and a servant to him above him, honoring himself, and wanting bread.

Isaiah 3:7

He shall lift up in that day, saying, I will not be binding up; and in my house no bread and no garment: thou shalt not set me a chief of the people.

Bread » Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table

Luke 16:21

And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds.

Matthew 15:27

And she said, Yes, Lord; for the little dogs also eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their lord.

Bread » Offered with sacrifices

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, poured over with oil, and thin unleavened cakes, anointed with oil: of fine flour of wheat thou shalt make them.

Exodus 29:23

And one round of bread, and one cake of fat bread, and one thin cake from the basket of the unleavened that is before. Jehovah.

Bread » Made of » Wheat

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, poured over with oil, and thin unleavened cakes, anointed with oil: of fine flour of wheat thou shalt make them.

Psalm 81:16

And he shall cause them to eat from the fat of wheat, and from the rock with honey will I satisfy thee.

Bread » Was baked » On coals of fire

Isaiah 44:19

And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood?

John 21:9

When therefore they came away to the land, they see a heap of burning coals laid, and little fish laid upon, and bread.

Bread » When old, dry and mouldy

Joshua 9:5

And shoes worn out and mended, upon their feet, and garments worn out upon them; and all the bread of their food dry; it was crumbs.

Joshua 9:12

This the hot bread we took it for food from our houses in the day we came forth to come to you; and now, behold, it dry, and it was crumbs

Bread » Yielded by the earth

Job 28:5

The earth, from it will come forth bread, and under it was turned as fire.

Isaiah 55:10

For as the rain coming down and the snow from the heavens, and shall not turn back there, but watering the earth and causing it to bring forth and sprout, and giving seed to be sown, and bread to be eaten;

Bread » Given by God

Ruth 1:6

And she will arise and her daughters-in-law, and she will turn back from the field of Moab: for she heard in the field of Moab that Jehovah reviewed his people to give bread to them.

Bread » Made of » Barley

Judges 7:13

And Gideon will come, and behold, a man recounting a dream to his neighbor; and he will say, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a round cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Midian; and it will come even to the tent, and it will strike it, and it will fall and will turn it over, so that the tent fell.

Bread » Called the staff of life

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, if a land shall sin against me to cover a transgression, and I stretched forth my hands upon it, and I broke to it the staff of bread, and sent famine upon it, and I cut off from it man and cattle:

Ezekiel 5:16

In my sending the evil arrows of famine upon them which were for destruction, which I shall send to destroy you: and I will add famine upon you, and I broke to you the staff of bread.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment

Bread » How prepared » In pans

Leviticus 2:5

And if a gift upon the frying pan their offering, fine flour mingled with oil, unleavened it shall be.

Leviticus 2:7

And if a gift of the pot thine offering, fine flour with oil it shall be made.

2 Samuel 13:6-9

And Amnon will lie down and be sick: and the king will come to see him, and Amnon will say to the king, Will Tamar my sister come now, and she shall make before mine eyes two cakes, and I will eat from her hand. And David will send to Tamar, saying, Go now to the house of Amnon thy brother, and make food for him. And Tamar will go to the house of Amnon her brother, and he lay down. And she will take dough and knead, and make cakes before his eyes, and bake the cakes. read more.
And she will take a frying-pan and pour out before him; and he will refuse to eat. And Amnon will say, Bring out every man from me. And they brought forth every man from him.

Bread » How prepared » Cakes

1 Kings 17:12

And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die.

2 Samuel 6:19

And he will distribute to all the people to every sort of Israel, from man and even to woman, to each one cake of bread, and one measure, and one cake: and all the people will go each to his house.

Bread » Traffic in

Jeremiah 37:21

And king Zedekiah will command, and they will commit Jeremiah to the enclosure of the prison, and giving to him a round of bread for the day from the street of the baker's, till all the bread was consumed out of the city. And Jeremiah dwelt in the enclosure of the prison.

Mark 6:37

And having answered, he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Having gone, should we buy loaves of two hundred drachmas, and give them to eat?

Bread » First fruit of, offered to God

Numbers 15:19-20

And it was in your eating from the bread of the land, ye shall lift up a lifting up to Jehovah. The first of your groats, a cake, shall ye lift up a lifting up; as the lifting up of the threshing floor, so shall ye lift it up.

Bread » Served round after funerals

Ezekiel 24:17-22

Be silent to the sighing of blood, thou shalt not make mourning for the dead; bind thy head-dress upon thee, and thou shalt put thy shoes upon thy feet, and thou shalt not cover over the mustachios, and the bread of men thou shalt not eat And I shall speak to the people in the morning and my wife will die in the evening and I shall do in the morning as I was commanded. And the people will say to me, Wilt thou not announce to us what these things to us that thou doest? read more.
And saying to them, The word of Jehovah was to me, saying, Say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold me profaning my holy place, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the pity of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom ye left, shall fall by the sword. And ye did as I did: ye shall not cover over your mustachios, and the bread of men ye shall not eat

Bread » Was formed into » Loaves

1 Samuel 10:3-4

And pass on from thence and beyond, and thou camest to the oak of Tabor, there three men shall find thee going up to God, to the house of God, one lifting up three kids and one lifting up three rounds of bread, and one lifting up a skin of wine. And they asked thee for peace, and they gave thee two of bread, and thou receivedst from their hands.

Bread » Illustrative » (eating without scarceness,) of plenty

Deuteronomy 8:9

A land where thou shalt eat bread in it not with poverty; thou shalt not want any thing in it; a land whose stones, iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt hew out brass.

Bread » How prepared » Wafers

Exodus 29:23

And one round of bread, and one cake of fat bread, and one thin cake from the basket of the unleavened that is before. Jehovah.

Exodus 16:21

And they will gather it in the morning by morning, a man according to the mouth of his eating: and the sun was hot and it melted.

Bread » By idolaters

Jeremiah 7:18

The sons are gathering up woods, and the fathers kindling the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens, and to pour out libations to other gods, to irritate me.

Jeremiah 44:19

And when we burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and pour out libations to her, did we without our men make cakes to her, to serve her, and pour out libations to her?

Bread » Illustrative » (of deceit,) of unlawful gain

Bread » Illustrative » (of idleness,) of sloth

Bread » Plenty of, promised to the obedient

Leviticus 26:5

And the threshing time to you reached the vintage, and the vintage shall reach the sowing: and ye ate your bread to satisfying, and ye dwelt in confidence upon your land.

Bread » Illustrative » (of wickedness,) of oppression

Proverbs 4:17

For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

Bread » Illustrative » (fulness of,) of abundance

Bread » With water, the food of prisons

1 Kings 22:27

And say, Thus said the king, Put this in the house of shutting up, and cause him to eat the bread of oppression and the waters of oppression till my coming in peace.

Bread » Ordinary, called common bread

1 Samuel 21:4

And the priest will answer David and say, No common bread under my hand, but there is consecrated bread; if the boys watched themselves only from women.

Bread » Illustrative » (of adversity,) of heavy affliction

Isaiah 30:20

And Jehovah gave to you the bread of straits and the waters of oppression, and he will no more cover those teaching thee, and thine eyes shall be seeing those teaching thee:

Bread » Illustrative » Of Christ

John 6:33-35

for the bread of God is he coming down from heaven, and giving life to the world. Then said they to him, Lord, always give us this bread. And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he coming to me should not hunger; and he believing in me should not thirst.

Bread » Was baked » On hearths

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

Bread » Made of » Manna (in the wilderness)

Numbers 11:8

The people went to and fro, and gathered and ground in the mill, or crushed in the mortar, and boiled in the pot, and made it cakes; and its taste was as the taste of a sweet cake of oil.

Bread » Placed on table of shew bread

Exodus 25:30

Give upon the table the bread of the face before me continually.

Bread » Nutritious and strengthening

Bread » Troughs used for kneading

Exodus 12:34

And the people will take up their dough before it will be leavened, their kneading-bowls bound in their garments upon their shoulders.

Bread » Corn ground for making

Isaiah 28:28

Bread shall be beaten small; for threshing, he will not forever thresh it; and the wheel of his wagon he put in motion and his horsemen shall not beat it small.

Bread » How prepared » On coals of dung

Ezekiel 4:12

And thou shalt eat it cakes of barley, and it shall be baked with dung coming forth of man, before their eyes.

Ezekiel 4:15

And he will say to me, See, I gave to thee the dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and make thy bread upon them.

Bread » Figurative » Christ

John 6:32-35

Then said Jesus to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you bread from heaven; but my Father gives you true bread from heaven. for the bread of God is he coming down from heaven, and giving life to the world. Then said they to him, Lord, always give us this bread. read more.
And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he coming to me should not hunger; and he believing in me should not thirst.

Bread » Made of » Beans, millet, &c

Ezekiel 4:9

And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and give them into one vessel, and make them to thee for bread, the number of days which thou didst lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it

Bread » Illustrative » (of tears,) of sorrow

Psalm 80:5

Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.

Bread » How prepared » Mixed with oil

Exodus 29:2

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, poured over with oil, and thin unleavened cakes, anointed with oil: of fine flour of wheat thou shalt make them.

Exodus 29:23

And one round of bread, and one cake of fat bread, and one thin cake from the basket of the unleavened that is before. Jehovah.

Bread » Meal

1 Kings 17:12

And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die.

Bread » How prepared » Cracknels

1 Kings 14:3

And take in thy hand ten of bread and crumb cakes, and a bottle of honey, and go to him: he will announce to thee what will be to the boy.

Bread » How prepared » Honey

Exodus 16:31

And the house of Israel will call its name portion: as the seed of coriander, white, and its taste as a flat cake with honey.

Bread » How prepared » On hearths

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

Bread » Made by men

Genesis 40:2

And Pharaoh will be angry against his two eunuchs, against the chief of the cup-bearers, and against the chief of the bakers.

Bread » Barley

Judges 7:13

And Gideon will come, and behold, a man recounting a dream to his neighbor; and he will say, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a round cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Midian; and it will come even to the tent, and it will strike it, and it will fall and will turn it over, so that the tent fell.

Bread » Manna

Numbers 11:8

The people went to and fro, and gathered and ground in the mill, or crushed in the mortar, and boiled in the pot, and made it cakes; and its taste was as the taste of a sweet cake of oil.

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1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse will say to David his son, Take now to thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and this ten of bread, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

Genesis 18:5

And I will take a bit of food, and strengthen your heart, afterwards ye shall pass away; for, for this ye passed over to your servant And they will say, Thou shalt do according to what thou saidst

Food » List of articles » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse will say to David his son, Take now to thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and this ten of bread, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

Exodus 13:6

Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened, and in the seventh day a festival to Jehovah.

John 6:7

Philip answered him. Loaves of two hundred drachmas will not suffice them, that each of them should take some little.

Food » Articles of » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse will say to David his son, Take now to thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and this ten of bread, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

Genesis 18:5

And I will take a bit of food, and strengthen your heart, afterwards ye shall pass away; for, for this ye passed over to your servant And they will say, Thou shalt do according to what thou saidst

Symbols and similitudes » Bread

Mark 14:22

And they eating, Jesus having taken bread, having praised, brake, and gave them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

Victuals » List of articles » Bread

1 Samuel 17:17

And Jesse will say to David his son, Take now to thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and this ten of bread, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

Exodus 13:6

Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened, and in the seventh day a festival to Jehovah.

John 6:7

Philip answered him. Loaves of two hundred drachmas will not suffice them, that each of them should take some little.

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Baking Bread

Exodus 12:39

And they will cook the dough which they brought out of Egypt unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened; for they were driven out of Egypt, for they could not linger, and also they made not for themselves food.

Bread, Figurative Of

Isaiah 30:20

And Jehovah gave to you the bread of straits and the waters of oppression, and he will no more cover those teaching thee, and thine eyes shall be seeing those teaching thee:

Bread, Kinds Of

Exodus 12:39

And they will cook the dough which they brought out of Egypt unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened; for they were driven out of Egypt, for they could not linger, and also they made not for themselves food.

Consecrated Bread

Hebrews 9:2

For the first tent was prepared; (in which was the chandelier, and table, and the setting up of the loaves;) which is called holy.

Feast Of Unleavened Bread

Exodus 12:15-20

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day.

Unleavened Bread

Exodus 12:39

And they will cook the dough which they brought out of Egypt unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened; for they were driven out of Egypt, for they could not linger, and also they made not for themselves food.

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