21 occurrences in 12 translations

'Eat' in the Bible

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Verse ConceptsCropsAbundance, MaterialFertile LandPolluting The LandThe Environment

And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFig treeFalse ConfidenceHarvestSowing And ReapingDestroying VineyardsWar As God's JudgmentDestruction Of CitiesNo FoodChildren SufferingNo More Tending The Flock

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

Verse ConceptsEating Meat

"Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. Indeed, when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn't speak or command them about burnt offering and sacrifice,

Verse ConceptsOfferingsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptSacrifice

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadUnburied BodiesAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesLack Of A Proper BurialBirds

Therefore, this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Look, I'll make these people eat wormwood and drink poisoned water.

Verse ConceptsPoisonRepulsive FoodBitter FoodDrugs

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Verse ConceptsSitting

In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sPlansAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesKilling Israelites

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Verse ConceptsBad ChildrenCannibalismAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

Verse ConceptsCedar WoodEating And DrinkingUnsuitable Rule

The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceWindShame Of Bad Conduct

Therefore, this is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies says about the prophets, "I'm about to make them eat wormwood and drink poisoned water, because godlessness has spread from the prophets of Jerusalem throughout the land."

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter FoodWicked ProphetsBitternessprophets

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalGardensWaiting Till Marriage

For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Verse ConceptsHorticultureAfter A Long TimeGardens

Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsOccupationsSamaritansSowing And ReapingPlanting VineyardsLiteral PlantingFarming

Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsAutumnTen PeopleMonth 7

But certainly we will do {everything} that went out from our mouths, to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors, our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, [for] then {we had enough to eat}, and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster.

Verse ConceptsRoadsSelf Delusion

But I will restore the flock of Israel to their own pasture. They will graze on Mount Carmel and the land of Bashan. They will eat until they are full on the hills of Ephraim and the land of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsAppetite, PhysicalPhysical HungerSatisfactionPromise of return

The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.

Verse ConceptsBabylonLionsLike Creatures

And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

Verse ConceptsLifelongDistinctive Clothing

Bible Theasaurus

Consume (170 instances)
Corrode (1 instance)
Deplete (1 instance)
Despatch (1 instance)
Devour (148 instances)
Discuss (17 instances)
Dispatch (5 instances)
Exhaust (12 instances)
Tolerate (15 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
βρῶσις 
Brosis 
Usage: 5

γεύομαι 
Geuomai 
Usage: 11

ἐσθίω 
Esthio 
Usage: 52

κατεσθίω 
Katesthio 
devour , eat up , devour up
Usage: 8

κορέννυμι 
Korennumi 
Usage: 2

μεταλαμβάνω 
metalambano 
Usage: 6

νομή 
Nome 
pasture , eat 9
Usage: 1

σκωληκόβρωτος 
Skolekobrotos 
Usage: 1

συνεσθίω 
sunesthio 
eat with
Usage: 5

τρώγω 
Trogo 
eat
Usage: 0

φάγω 
Phago 
eat , meat
Usage: 54

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