Bible Dictionary · B
Bake
The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times, committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen 18:6; Lev 26:26; 1 Sam 8:13); but at a later period we find a class of public bakers mentioned (Hos 7:4, Hos 7:6; Jer 37:21).
The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes (Ex 29:23; 1 Sam 2:36), of a thinness that rendered them easily broken (Isa 58:7; Matt 14:19; Matt 26:26; Acts 20:11). Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was half-filled with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over them. Hence we read of “cakes baken on the coals” (1 Kgs 19:6), and “baken in the oven” (Lev 2:4). (See Bread.)
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
