'Meal' in the Bible

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

But {he urged them strongly}, and they turned aside with him and came into his house. And he made a meal for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

A meal was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.”So Laban said, “Please speak.”

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me leave now so I can return to my master."

And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.

So he made a meal for them, and they ate and drank.

And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.

Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.

Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father—the kind he loves.

And you will take it to him, so that he may have a good meal and give you his blessing before his death.

So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his father's taste.

And he made ready a meal, good to the taste, and took it to his father, and said to him, Let my father get up and take of his son's meat, so that you may give me a blessing.

Then Jacob told his relatives, "Go gather some stones." So they picked up stones and stacked them one on top of the other. Then they had a meal together there by the stack of stones.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Then they sat down to eat a meal. They looked up, and there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.

And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the middle of the day.

Since the men had heard that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.

Then he washed his face and came out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”

Joseph's staff served him by himself, his brothers separately, and the Egyptian staff members by themselves, because the Egyptians wouldn't take their meal with the Hebrews, since doing so was detestable for the Egyptians.