4432 dough
Dictionary of Bible Themes

A mixture of flour and water to which yeast is added and which is then baked to produce bread. Scripture makes several comparisons with it to teach spiritual lessons.

Exodus 12:33-34

Dough and the process of making bread

See also

Yeast was normally added and the dough left to rise

Exodus 12:39
Jeremiah 7:18

See also

Dough was kneaded before baking

2 Samuel 13:8
Hosea 7:4
Romans 11:13-16

Spiritual lessons from comparisons with dough

The dough offered as firstfruits

Matthew 13:33

The influence of yeast on the dough

See also

1 Corinthians 5:1-8

pp Lk 13:20-21

Galatians 5:1-10

See also

2375 kingdom of God
4418 bread
4554 yeast
5222 baking
5435 ovens
7222 exodus, events of
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