The basic component of the staple diet in biblical times. Consecrated bread was continually laid out in the Holy Place of the tabernacle and temple. Jesus Christ called himself the bread of life.

Matthew 6:11

Bread the basic component of the diet

See also

Genesis 14:18; 18:3-6

pp Lk 11:3

Genesis 25:34; 27:17; 45:23
Deuteronomy 8:7-9; 23:4

Abraham entertains the three angels

Judges 8:5-6
Judges 19:19
Ruth 2:14

Gideon asks for bread for his troops

1 Samuel 2:36; 17:17; 21:2-3; 25:7-11
1 Kings 13:7-22; 17:10-16

Nabal refuses bread to David's men

1 Kings 19:5-6
Job 23:12

The widow at Zarephath feeds Elijah and is rewarded

Psalms 104:14-15
Proverbs 30:8
Isaiah 33:16; 51:14; 55:2
Jeremiah 37:21
Jeremiah 42:14
Lamentations 5:6

Jeremiah's rations in prison

Ezekiel 4:9
Deuteronomy 8:3
Matthew 4:3-4
Mark 6:8

pp Lk 4:3-4

2 Corinthians 9:10

the temptation of Jesus Christ

1 Kings 22:27

A diet consisting solely of bread was indicative of deprivation

See also

Proverbs 6:26

pp 2Ch 18:26

Lamentations 1:11; 2:12; 4:4
Exodus 12:39

Kinds of bread

See also

Unleavened bread

Exodus 12:8,14-20; 13:3-7
Exodus 16:31-35

See also

Manna

Exodus 16:4-8,11-12,14-19
Nehemiah 9:15
Psalms 78:23-25; 105:40
Genesis 45:23

Gifts of bread

See also

1 Samuel 10:3-4; 16:20; 25:18
2 Samuel 6:19
2 Samuel 16:1-2
1 Kings 14:3

pp 1Ch 16:3

2 Kings 4:42
Leviticus 7:11-14

Offerings of bread

See also

Exodus 29:2,32-34
Leviticus 2:11; 8:31-32; 23:20
Numbers 6:17-20
Judges 6:19-21
Leviticus 24:5-8

The bread of the Presence

Exodus 25:23-30; 35:10-13; 39:33-36; 40:22-23
Numbers 4:4-8

The table for the bread of the Presence:

1 Samuel 21:1-6
1 Chronicles 9:31-32; 23:29
2 Chronicles 2:4; 13:11

David and his men eat the consecrated bread

Nehemiah 10:32-33
Matthew 12:1-8

pp Mk 2:23-28

Hebrews 9:1-2

pp Lk 6:1-5

Jesus Christ and his disciples in the cornfields on the Sabbath

John 6:25-35

Jesus Christ as the bread of life

See also

John 6:41-59
Matthew 14:13-21

Miracles of multiplication of bread

pp Mk 6:32-44

See also

pp Lk 9:10-17

Matthew 15:32-38

pp Jn 6:1-13

pp Mk 8:1-10

Matthew 26:26-29

The breaking of bread as a symbol of the death of Jesus Christ

pp Mk 14:22-25

See also

pp Lk 22:17-20

Luke 24:28-35

pp 1Co 11:24-25

Acts 2:42,46; 20:6-7,11; 27:35
1 Corinthians 10:16-17

See also

2351 Christ, miracles
4404 food
4434 drinking
4476 meals
4532 vegetables
4554 yeast
5222 baking
5341 hunger
5574 tablet
7360 Feast of Unleavened Bread
7402 offerings
7933 Lord's Supper