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FLOUR

Grain was ground between stones (Num. 11:8; cf. Matt. 24:41), producing coarsely-ground meal and the more finely ground flour. The best flour required thorough cleaning and repeated grinding and sifting. Heb. qemaḥ designates flour or meal made from wheat or barley, and sōleṯ refers to very fine flour of wheat. In the NT Gk. áleuron designates regular flour (Matt. 13:33) and semídalis fine wheat flour (Rev. 18:13). Both flour and meal were stored in jars (1 Kgs. 17:12).

Flour and meal were basic staples for most meals. They could be prepared for consumption by adding water and cooked to make gruel, cake, or bread. Flour was also used as an ingredient in cakes offered to the deity as cereal offerings, made from choice wheat flour which was unleavened and mixed with oil (Lev. 2:1-7, 11).

Stephen Alan Reed






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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