Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  4000 Creation  »  4400 Vegetation and food  »  4432 dough

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.

Dough and the process of making bread

Yeast was normally added and the dough left to rise

Exodus 12:33-34 See also Exodus 12:39

Dough was kneaded before baking

Jeremiah 7:18 See also 2 Samuel 13:8; Hosea 7:4

Spiritual lessons from comparisons with dough

The dough offered as firstfruits

Romans 11:13-16

The influence of yeast on the dough

Matthew 13:33 pp Luke 13:20-21 See also 1 Corinthians 5:1-8; Galatians 5:1-10

See also

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