Half a Loaf Growth

Shame on whoever wants us to forget Palestine and run after a loaf of bread...

As Gandhi said, To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

You know, if God's going to show up, He's not going to show up on cheese bread.

They forgot to take bread and they didn't have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

But today I go to all bakeries. I can't find any loaf of bread due to be closed.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.

This reminded me of the Le Miserables novel where a person is executed for having stolen a loaf of bread while they have robbed us of billions of dollars and laugh in our faces.

Leberkäse is a loaf of corned beef, pork and bacon, it does not contain either liver or cheese despite the name.

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house.

And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.

He told me that all Venezuelans believed that they had been born with a loaf under their arm that is, a right to a share in the country s oil revenues.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.

And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

Ignoring the fact that bread in Babylon was probably healthier than today s highly refined product, the price of gold today is not so different, equal to perhaps 600 loaves of bread.

The closest translation to English would be loaf, but that does not actually describe the round, bulbous bread that is actually known as limppu, and could cause confusion as rectangular loaves are also available and are not called limppu.

For example, Stephen Harmston s oft cited 1998 study points to anecdotal evidence that an ounce of gold bought 350 loaves of bread in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who died in 562 BC.