The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . Serpent. BREAD (bred), (Heb. PEv, lekhem. The word bread was of far more extensive meaning amongthe Hebrews than with us. There are passages in which *it appears to beapplied to all kinds of victuals (Luke xi:3) ; butit more generally denotes all kinds of baked andpastry articles of food. It is also used, however,in the more limited sense of bread made fromwheat or barley, for rye is lit
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . Serpent. BREAD (bred), (Heb. PEv, lekhem. The word bread was of far more extensive meaning amongthe Hebrews than with us. There are passages in which *it appears to beapplied to all kinds of victuals (Luke xi:3) ; butit more generally denotes all kinds of baked andpastry articles of food. It is also used, however,in the more limited sense of bread made fromwheat or barley, for rye is little cultivated in theEast. Barley being used chiefly by the poor, andfor feeding horses (see Barley), bread, in themore limited sense, chiefly denotes the variouskinds of cake-like bread prepared from wheatenflour. Corn, or wheat, is ground daily in the East (seeMill). After the wheaten flour is taken from thehand-mill it is made into a dough or paste in asmall wooden trough. It is next leavened, afterwhich it is made into thin cakes or flaps, round oroval, and then baked. (1) The Kneading. The kneading troughs,in which the dough is prepared, have no resem-blance to ours in size or shape. It is dene in. Egyptians Kneading Dough with Their Hands. small wooden bowls; and that those of the an-cient Hebrews were of the same description asthose now in use appears from their being ableto carry them, together with the dough, wrappedup in their cloaks, upon their shoulders, withoutdifficulty. The Bedouin Arabs, indeed, use forthis purpose a leather, which can be drawn upinto a bag by a running cord along the border,and in which they prepare and often carry theirdough. This might equally, and in some respectsbetter, answer the described conditions; but, be-ing especially adapted to the use of a nomade andtent-dwelling people, it is more likely that the
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