Bible Dictionary: Dough

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

(batsek, meaning "swelling, " i.e., in fermentation). The dough the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Exodus 12:34, 39). In the process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hosea 7:8).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

2. (n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

DOUGH

do. See BREAD.

Greek

5445. phurama -- that which is mixed
... of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: phurama Phonetic Spelling: (foo'-ram-ah)
Short Definition: a mass or lump Definition: a mass or lump, as of bread dough ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1217. batseq -- dough (for cooking)
... 1216, 1217. batseq. 1218 . dough (for cooking). Transliteration: batseq
Phonetic Spelling: (baw-tsake') Short Definition: dough. ...
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6182. arisah -- perhaps coarse meal
... 6181, 6182. arisah. 6183 . perhaps coarse meal. Transliteration: arisah
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-ee-saw') Short Definition: dough. ... dough. ...
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4863. mishereth -- perhaps kneading trough
... kneading trough, store. From sha'ar in the original sense of swelling; a
kneading-trough (in which the dough rises) -- kneading trough, store. see HEBREW ...
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Library

The Parable of the Leaven.
... Like all other plants they require food, and they find this in the dough they are
placed in. ... This gas bubbles up and makes the heavy dough spongy and light. ...
/.../anonymous/mother stories from the new testament/the parable of the leaven.htm

Leaven
... effect of the Gospel, as ministered by, and residing in, the society of men, in
whom the will of God is supreme, is to change the heavy lump of dough into light ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/leaven.htm

The Leaven.
... the baking of bread. The moist, soft, yet dense mass of dough, is by
fermentation thrown into the form of a sponge. Owing to the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/iv the leaven.htm

Easter Sunday
... It is the nature of leaven that a small quantity mixed with a lump of dough will
pervade and fill the whole lump until its own acid nature has been imparted to ...
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Acon. Ptolemais.
... to be mentioned. "Rabbi came to a certain place, and saw the men of that
place baking their dough in uncleanness. When he inquired ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 64 acon ptolemais.htm

On Gen. vii. 6
... And Noah there and then bade his wife, and his sons' wives, diligently
attend to kneading dough and laying it in the oven. They ...
/.../the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/section iv on gen vii.htm

The First Great Group of Parables.
... separate form. A piece of leavened dough saved over from the last baking
is added to the new dough to ferment it. Three measures ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/liv the first great group 5.htm

The Escape from Egypt
... for me also." The Egyptians also told the people to hasten out of the land, for
they said, "We shall all perish." So the people took their dough before the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the escape from egypt.htm

The Sinner's Natural Power and Moral Weakness.
... those temptations. Just as our dough-faced politicians might, but do not
and will not, resist the demands of the slave power. Just ...
/.../finney/sermons on gospel themes/xi the sinners natural power.htm

The Kingdom of God and Your Part in It
... was a minute plant, perhaps one six-thousandth of an inch in diameter, with such
an amazing power of propagation that, simply in contact with the dough, it has ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/vi the kingdom of god.htm

Thesaurus

Dough (15 Occurrences)
... The dough the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them out of
Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Exodus 12:34, 39). ...DOUGH. do. See BREAD. ...
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Leaven (24 Occurrences)
... (1.) Hebrews seor (Exodus 12:15, 19; 13:7; Leviticus 2:11), the remnant of dough
from the preceding baking which had fermented and become acid. ...
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Cake (25 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin
loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. ...
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Yeast (48 Occurrences)
... plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine
or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread ...
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Kneading (7 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. ...
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Knead (2 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary To prepare dough in the process of baking (Genesis
18:6; 1 Samuel 28:24; Hosea 7:4). Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Leavened (16 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. ...
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Paste (10 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth
moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware. ...
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Bake (13 Occurrences)
... 11). Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was half-filled
with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over them. ...
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Coarse (6 Occurrences)
... Numbers 15:20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering:
as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it. ...
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Bible Concordance

Dough (15 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
(See NIV)

Luke 13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."
(See NIV)

Romans 11:16 Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also are the branches.
(WEY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 5:6 It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?
(WEY NAS NIV)

1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ.
(WEY)

Galatians 5:9 A little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough.
(WEY NAS NIV)

Exodus 12:34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 12:39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 15:20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering: as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Numbers 15:21 Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Samuel 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 10:37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 44:30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Dough

Dough: First of, offered to God

Dough: Kneaded

Dough: Part of, for Priest

Related Terms

Leaven (24 Occurrences)

Cake (25 Occurrences)

Yeast (48 Occurrences)

Kneading (7 Occurrences)

Knead (2 Occurrences)

Leavened (16 Occurrences)