baculum panis

• Language: Latin
• Romanized: baculum panis
• Original script: baculum panis
• Gloss: staff of bread

The Vulgate form of the staff-of-bread idiom. Jerome’s Latin carries the Hebrew image — bread as the prop a people lean on, the thing God can break — into the textual tradition that shaped the medieval West.

Related entries

• Matteh Lehem — Hebrew original
• Sterigma Artou — Septuagint rendering
• Panis — bread
• Matteh — staff, rod, support