471 occurrences

'Eat' in the Bible

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

Adam, PriviledgesGod's ProvisionFood DefinedFood PermittedAdam and eveGardensMorality

The woman said to the serpent, From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

Food DefinedFood PermittedNASB

but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.

DeviousnessSin Producing DeathNot TouchingSin Produces DeathAdam and eveGardensNASB

And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

Naked In ShameEating Forbidden FoodTelling Of People's SituationsGod Forbidding

The Lord God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,Cursed are you more than all cattle,And more than every beast of the field;On your belly you will go,And dust you will eatAll the days of your life;

SatanticRetributionSerpentsSnakesStomachsLifelongCrawlingThe Ancient SerpentGod CursingNoting What Animals EatAdam and evePunishmentPunishmentscatsfatedust

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;And you will eat the plants of the field;

Condemnation, Examples OfBarren, LandThistlesThornsFood DefinedHerbs

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

Garden Of Eden, TheKnowledge, Of SinKnowledge Of Good And EvilUniquenessGod, TrinityImmortality, In OtSeeking LifeMetaphorical TreesArrogantly Like GodGraspingKnowing Right And WrongMen As GodsNot For EverPeople With Knowledgepotentialautonomy

But when food was set before him to eat, he said, “I will not eat until I have told my business.” And he said, “Speak on.”

DinnerGiving InformationThose Who Provided A Meal

and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”

TasteRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathLoving Other ThingsPeople Blessing

‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the Lord before my death.’

Requesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathPeople BlessingMothers Deathgames

Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

Requesting FoodBefore DeathPeople Blessing

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you may bless me.”

Examples Of DeceitFirstbornInheritance, MaterialFirstborn SonsThis Is MePeople Blessing

So he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that I may bless you.” And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.

WineProviding WinePeople Blessing

Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.”

SavourinessPeople BlessingDeercooking

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear,

JourneyPresent, TheGod Will Be With YouGod With Specific PeopleGod KeepsProtecting Your FamilyGiving BackDivine Protection

Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Weakness, PhysicalThighsTouching To HarmForbidden FoodStatutes To This Daymuscles

Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.

BalmsCaravansHerbs And SpicesMoney, Uses OfMyrrhPerfumeTradeTravelCamelsCommercePeople EatingSitting In Fellowship

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”

Death penaltyHeadsRemoving HeadsAnimals Eating PeopleLifting HeadsEating CorpsesBirds EatingPeople Hung To Death

So they prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon; for they had heard that they were to eat a meal there.

Preparing FoodThose Who Provided A Meal

So they served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is loathsome to the Egyptians.

AbominationsAbominations, PracticesPeople PartingNo DealingsHating Peoples

and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat of the land.’

FatnessFat Of AnimalsPlenty In Egyptland

He said to his daughters, “Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”

Hospitality, Examples OfInvitationsHospitalityTravellersWhere Are People?

They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.

Covering The EarthRemaining FoodAnimals EatingHarming Trees

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

SymbolsStretching OutRemaining FoodAnimals Eating

Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb.

SmallnessEating Before GodAccording To PeopleFew PeopleNeighbours

Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

Passover lambDoorpostsSprinklingBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of Constructions

They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Bread, Kinds OfBitter HerbsEating Before GodBitter FoodHerbsEating Meatcooking

Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.

HeadsLegsEating Meatporkcookinglungs

Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover.

Passover lambAtonement, Types OfNew Year, TheAdventureSandalsStaffHasteShoesClothing OneselfHasty ActionPreparing To TravelWalking With A Staff

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

BanishmentSevenSeven DaysThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

Evening

You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it;

Aaron, Life EventsLaws Restricting ForeignersThe Law Given To Israel

but every man’s slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.

Circumcision, physicalServanthood, In SocietyServants Of PeopleCircumcision

A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it.

But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

ForeignersExclusivenessUncircumcisionForeigners Permitted At The FeastsCircumcisionStrangers in israelAliens

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.

The Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7anniversary

Moses said, “This will happen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for the Lord hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the Lord.”

Knowledge, Of GodComplaintsGod HearingIn The MorningGod Paid Attention To ThemGrumbling At PeopleI Am UnimportantComplaining

“I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”

Assurance, basis ofBreakfastTwilightIn The MorningGod Paid Attention To Them

When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

Unknown ThingsWhat Is This?Gifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodPeople Naming Things

This is what the Lord has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’”

TentsGathering FoodAccording To People

When they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered much had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered as much as he should eat.

Equality In PaymentGathering MuchLittle FoodGathering FoodPlenty For The PoorSurplus

They gathered it morning by morning, every man as much as he should eat; but when the sun grew hot, it would melt.

Climates, TypesThe SunGathering FoodHot Weather

Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field.

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Aaron, Life EventsBurnt offeringSacrifice, In OtEating Before God

“You shall be holy men to Me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Animals, religious role ofdogsPeople Of God, In OtAnimals, Types OfAnimals Torn To PiecesA Holy NationForbidden FoodPets

but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

ethics, socialLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForVineyardOrchardsUnusedAgricultureRestFarming

You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

FeastingFeast Of Unleavened BreadCelebrationsMonthUnleavened BreadYeastMonth 1Seven DaysLeaving EgyptEmpty HandedRegulations For Passoverthe anniversary Feastsanniversary

Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Sacrifices At The Doorway

Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.

StrangersPriests Atoning

otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice,

Food For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsWorshipping Material Things

“You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

CelebrationsUnleavened BreadWeeksYeastMonth 1Seven DaysRegulations For Passoverthe anniversary Feastsanniversary

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Fasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

FatnessExclusivenessBlood, as basis of lifeOrdinancesPerpetual StatutesPeople Consuming BloodFat Of AnimalsForbidden Food

What is left of it Aaron and his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the court of the tent of meeting.

Remaining OfferingsFood For Priests Defined

Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord. Whoever touches them will become consecrated.’”

GenerationsTouchMen WorshippingTouching Holy ThingsPermitted To Eat Offerings

The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.

Sin OfferingFood For Priests Defined

Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.

Men WorshippingPermitted To Eat Offerings

Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

Men WorshippingFood For Priests DefinedPermitted To Eat Offerings

‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.

Sanitation, DisinfectionTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsForbidden FoodUnclean Animals

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep or a goat.

SheepSanitation, FoodFat Of AnimalsForbidden Food

Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but you must certainly not eat it.

Animals Torn To PiecesFat Of AnimalsDeath Of CreaturesForbidden FoodUseful Things

You are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

Forbidden Foodvampires

Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and eat it there together with the bread which is in the basket of the ordination offering, just as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

Sacrifices At The DoorwayFood For Priests Defined

Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that is left over from the Lord’s offerings by fire and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

YeastSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

You shall eat it, moreover, in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due out of the Lord’s offerings by fire; for thus I have been commanded.

Animal Sacrifices, Meal Offering

The breast of the wave offering, however, and the thigh of the offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your due and your sons’ due out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

daughtersFellowship OfferingWave OfferingsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingSwingingThighs Of AnimalsPermitted To Eat Offerings

“Why did you not eat the sin offering at the holy place? For it is most holy, and He gave it to you to bear away the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord.

Incurring GuiltSin BearerFood For Priests DefinedWhy Do People Not Do This?Priests Atoning

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.

Food DefinedRelation Of Animals To Man

Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.

BeastsCleft HoofsFeet Of CreaturesClean And UncleanClean AnimalsClean FoodNoting What Animals Eatporkcats

Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you.

CamelsUnclean SpiritsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals EatUnclean Animals

You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

TouchCorpses Of AnimalsTouching Unclean ThingsForbidden FoodEating Meatporkfootball

‘These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

Sea DwellersClean FoodBrooksFishThe SeaEating Meatpork

and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest.

AbominationsCorpses Of AnimalsForbidden FoodGod Hating Things

Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth.

Feet Of CreaturesClean Food

These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, and the devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds.

InsectsLocustsGrasshoppersAccording To Its KindClean FoodKinds Of Living ThingsWeedbugs

Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.

AbominationsCrawlingUnclean SpiritsFeet Of CreaturesClean And UncleanClean AnimalsForbidden FoodUnclean AnimalsEating Meatbugsworms

Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.’

Forbidden Food

“For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

People Consuming BloodForbidden FoodThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelBlood

In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.

Increasing FruitThe Lord Is GodFifthFood Permitted

He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

Permitted To Eat Offerings

No man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse or if a man has a seminal emission,

LeprosySkinSemenDischargesRules About Corpses

a person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he has bathed his body in water.

Touching Holy ThingsUnclean Until Evening

But when the sun sets, he will be clean, and afterward he shall eat of the holy gifts, for it is his food.

SunsetsFood For Priests Defined

‘No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift.

Laws Restricting Foreigners

But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

Money, Uses OfRightsSlavesPermitted To Eat Offerings

If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts.

But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s food; but no layman shall eat of it.

SinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

Feast Of Unleavened BreadNew Year, TheYeastSeven Days

Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

OrdinancesPerpetual StatutesEating Forbidden Food

It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the Lord’s offerings by fire, his portion forever.”

Priests, Function In Ot TimesPerpetual StatutesShowbreadPermitted To Eat Offerings

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)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּרה 
Barah 
eat , choose , give , cause to eat
Usage: 7

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 142

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

אכל 
'akal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

אכל 
'okel 
Usage: 44

אכלה 
'oklah 
Usage: 18

בּער 
Ba`ar 
burn , ... away , kindle , brutish , eaten , set , burn up , eat up , feed , heated , took , wasted
Usage: 94

זלל 
Zalal 
Usage: 9

טעם 
T@`am (Aramaic) 
make to eat , feed
Usage: 3

לחם לחוּם 
Lachuwm 
while he is eating , flesh
Usage: 2

לחם 
Lacham 
Usage: 177

לחם 
Lechem 
Usage: 298

רעה 
Ra`ah 
Usage: 171

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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