319 occurrences

'Food' in the Bible

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols?

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

Don't you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

and we did not eat anyone's food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

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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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