staff of life - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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Following on from the Biblical expression "break the breadstick" (Hebrew לֶחֶם Women (mint medicine)),personal (“long, straight rod”)in this context something that acts as support means:^[1]se e.g.Leviticus26:26 (King James Version; modernized spelling): "And when I have broken the rod of thy bread, ten women shall bake thy bread in one oven, and they shall give thee thy bread by weight: and thou shalt eat, and not be satisfied";^[2]InEzekiel4:16: “[...] Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight and with care, and they shall drink water with measure and with wonder.[…]”.^[3]To compareEgyptian ḫt n ꜥnḫ (“grain; food”, literal“stick or tree of life”).

Pronunciation[editing]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key):/ˈstɑːf ə(v) ˌlaɪf/
• (General American) IPA^(key):/ˈstæf ə(v) ˌlaɪf/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key):/ˈstɐːf ɘ(v) ˌlɑef/

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Noun[editing]

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1. (idiomatic,manliteraryofpoetic) Broodor something elsestaples food.

   • 1831July 15, "Of the Blood", iWestern health magazine‎^[1], volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, side38:

     Torturing bread was reserved for Christiansstaff of life, bread, for which children all wail, bread, a grazing gift for the poor, bread, from which thousands of our fellow human beings die every year from famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread with fire, to create a chemical and insane poison, to burn the brain and brutalize the soul, and to cause evil to mankind, in comparison with which war, pestilence and famine ceases to be evils.

   • 1989, Rita Knipe,The Water of Life: A Jungian Journey through Hawaiian Myth‎^[2],University of Hawaii Press,→ISBN, kant38:

     The round gourd is a perfect image for the female womb, in which the hard-pounded taro is encased and then offered as the ultimatestaff of life.

   • 199818 februari, Colin G. Calloway,New worlds for everyone: Indians, Europeans and the reorganization of early America‎^[3], JHU-pers,→ISBN, sideways51-52:

     Corn wasstaff of lifetoo many Indians before contact, and that was itstaff of lifefor many European settlers. Corn was nutritionally higher than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who traveled through South Carolina and the Indian interior in 1701, was one of many colonists who sang the praises of corn.

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