1. Judges 7:13 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What kind of cake might this have been?

Judges 7:13 (ESV)

13 When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. 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.”

The cake may have been a specific kind of pastry. Boling connects the word used (ṣelol) to the Arabic ṣalla, to become dry, cracked, putrid, hence, moldy.1 At any rate, the cake was something unimpressive.