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KNEADING BOWL

A household utensil for the production of bread and other baked goods and thus an image of hospitality. Sarah probably uses a kneading bowl (Heb. mišʾereṯ) when she prepares cakes for Abraham’s three visitors (Gen. 18:6). The medium at Endor kneads and bakes bread for Saul (1 Sam. 28:24), and Tamar kneads bread for Amnon (2 Sam. 13:8). Jer. 7:18 cites women kneading cakes for the queen of heaven as an example of Israel’s wickedness.

The kneading bowl is also an image of life and death. During the second plague, frogs were so numerous they even got into the Egyptian’s kneading bowls (Exod. 8:3[MT 7:28]). When the Israelites left Egypt, they carried their bowls, still filled with dough and bound up with their clothes, on their shoulders (Exod. 12:34). Deut. 28 mentions kneading bowls among the blessings (v. 5) and curses (v. 17).

Victoria Andrews






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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