'Ate' in the Bible

Now in that very moment this pronouncement about Nebuchadnezzar came true. He was driven from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until his hair became long like an eagle's feathers, and his nails like a bird's claws.

I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.