9 occurrences

'Food' in the Bible

And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אכל 
'okel 
Usage: 44

אכלה 
'oklah 
Usage: 18

בּוּל 
Buwl 
Usage: 2

לחם 
Lechem 
Usage: 298

מאכל 
Ma'akal 
Usage: 30

מכּלת 
Makkoleth 
Usage: 1

ציד 
Tsayid 
Usage: 19

שׁאר 
Sh@'er 
Usage: 16

βρῶσις 
Brosis 
Usage: 5

διατροφή 
Diatrophe 
Usage: 1

τροφή 
Trophe 
meat , food , some meat , not tr
Usage: 12

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