Encyclopedia entry
Flour
Grain reduced to the form of meal is spoken of in the time of Abraham (Gen. 18:6). As baking was a daily necessity, grain was also ground daily at the mills (Jer. 25:10). The flour mingled with water was kneaded in kneading-troughs, and sometimes leaven (Ex. 12:34) was added and sometimes omitted (Gen. 19:3). The dough was then formed into thin cakes nine or ten inches in diameter and baked in the oven.
Read full account →↑
Fine flour was offered by the poor as a sin-offering (Lev. 5:11-13), and also in connection with other sacrifices (Num. 15:3-12; 28:7-29).
Also from Smith's (1884) +−
[Bread]
In the Bible
68
Verses where Flour is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Chronicles 9:29
Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 23:29
as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
- 1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 1 Kings 17:12
But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
- 1 Kings 17:14
for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”
+62 more verses naming Flour.
Scripture on Flour
38
See all 38 +−
- 1 Kings 172 Kings 7Genesis 18Exodus 29Leviticus 5Leviticus 6Leviticus 14Leviticus 23Ezekiel 16Genesis 19Exodus 12Leviticus 7Leviticus 24Numbers 5Numbers 6Numbers 8Judges 61 Samuel 11 Samuel 282 Samuel 132 Samuel 171 Kings 42 Kings 41 Chronicles 91 Chronicles 121 Chronicles 23Isaiah 47Jeremiah 25Ezekiel 46Hosea 8Matthew 13Luke 13Revelation 18
Voices on Flour
9
Surfaced by name match — accuracy varies by title clarity.
Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
Public-domain text. Modernized only where archaic spelling impedes reading; original facts preserved. Verify against an authoritative modern reference before quoting.





![The Resurrection: Why Christianity Flourished and Roman Paganism Died. Acts 4:1-13 [Sermon]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eNI3KTwXo4o/hqdefault.jpg)

![[The Human Project] #3 What Leads to Human Flourishing? (Short Story)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KQWA88mRtK0/hqdefault.jpg)

