'Food' in the Bible

Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.

Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;

the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.

The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.

Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.

But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You won't be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.

The leaves of it were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."

"But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food."

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."

The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."

But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.

Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.

While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads."

Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

and all ate the same spiritual food;

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,