unleavened

Everyday

Unleavened bread is bread made without yeast or any other rising agent, so it stays flat and hard. tree →

In the lessons

old use, in tales and religious stories; children may meet it in stories about old bread, flat cakes or travellers' food

Examples

• The travellers ate flat, unleavened cakes made from flour and water. tree →
• Unleavened bread does not rise in the oven. tree →
• In the old story the family baked unleavened flatbread. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

Unleavened bread, called matzah, is what the Israelites ate when they left Egypt in a hurry. The Torah commands it for the seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Interpretation. Jews keep this as Passover (Pesach) and eat matzah to remember the Exodus. They also remove all leavened food (chametz) from their homes.

Examples

• The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. (Torah EXO.34.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.' (Torah EXO.12.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD. (Torah EXO.13.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. (Writings 2CH.30.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. (Writings 2CH.35.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• And they did eat of the produce of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn, in the selfsame day. (Prophets JOS.5.11, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths