Bread
לֶחֶם (lechem)
STAPLE
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 354 verses (KJV)
Grain
Description
Bread is the Bible’s word for food itself — from the manna called ‘bread from heaven’ to Jesus breaking bread at the Last Supper. Most loaves were barley for the poor, wheat for the wealthy.
Key verses
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.”
Matthew 26:26
“Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.”
Exodus 16:4
Symbolism
God’s provision and Christ’s body — ‘I am the bread of life’ (John 6:35).
All 354 referencesshow
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
- 1 Chronicles 16:3
- 1 Corinthians 5:8
- 1 Corinthians 10:16
- 1 Corinthians 10:17
- 1 Corinthians 11:23
- 1 Corinthians 11:26
- 1 Corinthians 11:27
- 1 Corinthians 11:28
- 1 Kings 13:8
- 1 Kings 13:9
- 1 Kings 13:15
- 1 Kings 13:16
- 1 Kings 13:17
- 1 Kings 13:18
- 1 Kings 13:19
- 1 Kings 13:22
- 1 Kings 13:23
- 1 Kings 14:3
- 1 Kings 17:6
- 1 Kings 17:11
- 1 Kings 18:4
- 1 Kings 18:13
- 1 Kings 21:4
- 1 Kings 21:5
- 1 Kings 21:7
- 1 Kings 22:27
- 1 Samuel 2:5
- 1 Samuel 2:36
- 1 Samuel 9:7
- 1 Samuel 10:3
- 1 Samuel 10:4
- 1 Samuel 16:20
- 1 Samuel 17:17
- 1 Samuel 21:3
- 1 Samuel 21:4
- 1 Samuel 21:5
- 1 Samuel 21:6
- 1 Samuel 22:13
- 1 Samuel 25:11
- 1 Samuel 25:18
- 1 Samuel 28:20
- 1 Samuel 28:22
- 1 Samuel 28:24
- 1 Samuel 30:11
- 1 Samuel 30:12
- 2 Chronicles 8:13
- 2 Chronicles 18:26
- 2 Chronicles 30:13
- 2 Chronicles 30:21
- 2 Chronicles 35:17
- 2 Corinthians 9:10
- 2 Kings 4:8
- 2 Kings 4:42
- 2 Kings 6:22
- 2 Kings 18:32
- 2 Kings 23:9
- 2 Kings 25:3
- 2 Kings 25:29
- 2 Samuel 3:29
- 2 Samuel 3:35
- 2 Samuel 6:19
- 2 Samuel 9:7
- 2 Samuel 9:10
- 2 Samuel 12:17
- 2 Samuel 12:20
- 2 Samuel 12:21
- 2 Samuel 16:1
- 2 Samuel 16:2
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8
- 2 Thessalonians 3:12
- Acts 2:42
- Acts 2:46
- Acts 12:3
- Acts 20:6
- Acts 20:7
- Acts 20:11
- Acts 27:35
- Amos 4:6
- Amos 7:12
- Amos 8:11
- Daniel 10:3
- Deuteronomy 8:3
- Deuteronomy 8:9
- Deuteronomy 9:9
- Deuteronomy 9:18
- Deuteronomy 16:3
- Deuteronomy 16:4
- Deuteronomy 16:8
- Deuteronomy 16:16
- Deuteronomy 23:4
- Deuteronomy 29:6
- Ecclesiastes 9:7
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
- Ecclesiastes 11:1
- Exodus 2:20
- Exodus 12:8
- Exodus 12:15
- Exodus 12:17
- Exodus 12:18
- Exodus 12:20
- Exodus 13:3
- Exodus 13:6
- Exodus 13:7
- Exodus 16:3
- Exodus 16:4
- Exodus 16:8
- Exodus 16:12
- Exodus 16:15
- Exodus 16:22
- Exodus 16:29
- Exodus 16:32
- Exodus 18:12
- Exodus 23:15
- Exodus 23:18
- Exodus 23:25
- Exodus 29:2
- Exodus 29:23
- Exodus 29:32
- Exodus 29:34
- Exodus 34:18
- Exodus 34:28
- Exodus 40:23
- Ezekiel 4:9
- Ezekiel 4:13
- Ezekiel 4:15
- Ezekiel 4:16
- Ezekiel 4:17
- Ezekiel 5:16
- Ezekiel 12:18
- Ezekiel 12:19
- Ezekiel 13:19
- Ezekiel 14:13
- Ezekiel 16:49
- Ezekiel 18:7
- Ezekiel 18:16
- Ezekiel 24:17
- Ezekiel 24:22
- Ezekiel 44:3
- Ezekiel 44:7
- Ezekiel 45:21
- Ezra 6:22
- Ezra 10:6
- Genesis 3:19
- Genesis 14:18
- Genesis 18:5
- Genesis 19:3
- Genesis 21:14
- Genesis 25:34
- Genesis 27:17
- Genesis 28:20
- Genesis 31:54
- Genesis 37:25
- Genesis 39:6
- Genesis 41:54
- Genesis 41:55
- Genesis 43:25
- Genesis 43:31
- Genesis 43:32
- Genesis 45:23
- Genesis 47:12
- Genesis 47:13
- Genesis 47:15
- Genesis 47:17
- Genesis 47:19
- Genesis 49:20
- Haggai 2:12
- Hosea 2:5
- Hosea 9:4
- Isaiah 3:1
- Isaiah 3:7
- Isaiah 4:1
- Isaiah 21:14
- Isaiah 28:28
- Isaiah 30:20
- Isaiah 30:23
- Isaiah 33:16
- Isaiah 36:17
- Isaiah 44:15
- Isaiah 44:19
- Isaiah 51:14
- Isaiah 55:2
- Isaiah 55:10
- Isaiah 58:7
- Jeremiah 5:17
- Jeremiah 37:21
- Jeremiah 38:9
- Jeremiah 41:1
- Jeremiah 42:14
- Jeremiah 52:6
- Jeremiah 52:33
- Job 15:23
- Job 22:7
- Job 27:14
- Job 28:5
- Job 33:20
- Job 42:11
- John 6:5
- John 6:7
- John 6:9
- John 6:11
- John 6:13
- John 6:23
- John 6:26
- John 6:31
- John 6:32
- John 6:33
- John 6:34
- John 6:35
- John 6:41
- John 6:48
- John 6:50
- John 6:51
- John 6:58
- John 13:18
- John 21:9
- John 21:13
- Joshua 9:5
- Joshua 9:12
- Judges 7:13
- Judges 8:5
- Judges 8:6
- Judges 8:15
- Judges 13:16
- Judges 19:5
- Judges 19:19
- Lamentations 1:11
- Lamentations 4:4
- Lamentations 5:6
- Lamentations 5:9
- Leviticus 6:16
- Leviticus 7:13
- Leviticus 8:2
- Leviticus 8:26
- Leviticus 8:31
- Leviticus 8:32
- Leviticus 21:6
- Leviticus 21:8
- Leviticus 21:17
- Leviticus 21:21
- Leviticus 21:22
- Leviticus 22:25
- Leviticus 23:6
- Leviticus 23:14
- Leviticus 23:17
- Leviticus 23:18
- Leviticus 23:20
- Leviticus 24:7
- Leviticus 26:5
- Leviticus 26:26
- Luke 4:3
- Luke 4:4
- Luke 7:33
- Luke 9:3
- Luke 9:13
- Luke 9:16
- Luke 11:3
- Luke 11:5
- Luke 11:11
- Luke 14:1
- Luke 14:15
- Luke 15:17
- Luke 22:1
- Luke 22:7
- Luke 22:19
- Luke 24:30
- Luke 24:35
- Malachi 1:7
- Mark 3:20
- Mark 6:8
- Mark 6:36
- Mark 6:37
- Mark 6:38
- Mark 6:41
- Mark 6:44
- Mark 6:52
- Mark 7:2
- Mark 7:5
- Mark 7:27
- Mark 8:4
- Mark 8:5
- Mark 8:6
- Mark 8:14
- Mark 8:16
- Mark 8:17
- Mark 8:19
- Mark 14:1
- Mark 14:12
- Mark 14:22
- Matthew 4:3
- Matthew 4:4
- Matthew 6:11
- Matthew 7:9
- Matthew 14:17
- Matthew 14:19
- Matthew 15:2
- Matthew 15:26
- Matthew 15:33
- Matthew 15:34
- Matthew 15:36
- Matthew 16:5
- Matthew 16:7
- Matthew 16:8
- Matthew 16:9
- Matthew 16:10
- Matthew 16:11
- Matthew 16:12
- Matthew 26:17
- Matthew 26:26
- Nehemiah 5:14
- Nehemiah 5:15
- Nehemiah 5:18
- Nehemiah 9:15
- Nehemiah 13:2
- Numbers 4:7
- Numbers 6:15
- Numbers 6:17
- Numbers 9:11
- Numbers 14:9
- Numbers 15:19
- Numbers 21:5
- Numbers 28:2
- Numbers 28:17
- Obadiah 1:7
- Proverbs 4:17
- Proverbs 6:26
- Proverbs 9:5
- Proverbs 9:17
- Proverbs 12:9
- Proverbs 12:11
- Proverbs 20:13
- Proverbs 20:17
- Proverbs 22:9
- Proverbs 23:6
- Proverbs 25:21
- Proverbs 28:19
- Proverbs 28:21
- Proverbs 31:27
- Psalms 14:4
- Psalms 37:25
- Psalms 41:9
- Psalms 53:4
- Psalms 78:20
- Psalms 80:5
- Psalms 102:4
- Psalms 102:9
- Psalms 104:15
- Psalms 105:16
- Psalms 105:40
- Psalms 109:10
- Psalms 127:2
- Psalms 132:15
- Ruth 1:6
- Ruth 2:14