artos

• Names a specific baked thing, the loaf, so it can be counted and handed out one by one, as when a crowd is fed from a fixed number of loaves.Mat 14:19Mrk 6:41Mrk 8:6
• Stands for daily sustenance as a whole in the fixed prayer for provision, where the single loaf represents everything a person needs to live.Mat 6:11Luk 11:3
• Carries a set religious sense that "food" never does: the consecrated loaves kept in the sanctuary, and the loaf taken and broken at the Lord's table.Mat 12:4Mrk 2:26Mat 26:26Mrk 14:22

• Both name what people eat to stay alive, so the two can stand side by side for provision: the loaves already in hand and the further food that must be bought for a hungry crowd.Luk 9:13

• Names food in general, whatever is eaten, so it is the natural word for questions about diet and what may or may not be put on the table.Rom 14:15Rom 14:201Co 8:81Ti 4:3
• Marks the contrast between solid food and milk, standing for mature, substantial nourishment rather than a starter diet.1Co 3:2
• Points to eating as a bodily process, the food that passes through the stomach, where the concern is digestion rather than any particular dish.Mrk 7:191Co 6:13

• This is the plain, countable word for a loaf: something you can borrow from a neighbor, leave behind when you travel light, or ask God for one day at a time.Mat 6:11Mrk 6:8Luk 11:5
• It widens out to mean a living, the food a person works for. Paul says he paid for what he ate and tells the idle to earn their own, and the runaway son measures his hunger against hired hands who have food to spare.2Th 3:82Th 3:12Luk 15:17
• Taking it, blessing it, breaking it, and passing it around is a whole scene the word carries by itself. The gesture names the last supper, the moment two travelers recognize Jesus, and the shared act that held the first believers together.Mat 26:26Luk 24:30Act 2:421Co 10:16
• Because it is the ordinary word for what keeps people alive, it can be turned into a claim about a person. Jesus says "I am the bread of life" and "the living bread", and then says the bread he gives is his own flesh. Manna is never spoken of that way.Jhn 6:35Jhn 6:48Jhn 6:51

• Both name food that came from God to keep people alive, which is why the crowd can slide from one word to the other inside a single sentence: their ancestors ate the manna in the desert, as it is written, "he gave them bread out of heaven to eat".Jhn 6:31
• Jesus can weigh one against the other only because they belong together. He sets the bread that came down from heaven beside the manna the ancestors ate and died, comparing food with food.Jhn 6:58
• Both can be set apart in the sanctuary as a standing sign that God feeds his people: loaves laid out on the table in the holy place, and a portion of manna sealed away in the chest.Heb 9:2Heb 9:4

• This is a name, not a kind of food. It belongs to one gift, in one place, to one generation in the wilderness, and it is never used of anything on anyone's table afterward.Jhn 6:49Heb 9:4
• It comes with a verdict attached. In John, Jesus says the ancestors ate it in the desert and died, so the word names food that kept people going for a while and then ran out.Jhn 6:49
• It survives as a kept object rather than a meal: a golden jar of it stored inside the covenant chest, beside Aaron's staff and the stone tablets.Heb 9:4
• Its name can be lifted out of the past and promised as a reward still hidden, given to whoever holds out to the end.Rev 2:17

• Names the finished, baked loaf that people actually eat at a meal, the everyday staple you ask God to supply.Mat 6:11Luk 11:3Mat 4:4
• Is the loaf taken, blessed, and broken by hand and passed around, so it belongs to the table and the shared meal.Mat 26:26Mrk 14:22Luk 24:35
• Is what the crowds are fed with in the wilderness, counted out as a handful of loaves that are multiplied to satisfy hunger.Mat 14:19Mrk 6:41Jhn 6:9

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• Names the raw grain still being harvested and cleaned, the wheat gathered into the barn once it is separated from the chaff.Mat 3:12Luk 3:17Mat 13:30
• Is the single seed that is buried in the ground and dies before it can grow, the kernel a farmer sows rather than eats.Jhn 12:241Co 15:37
• Is stored produce and traded cargo, the wheat piled in bigger barns, weighed out at a set price, or thrown overboard to lighten a ship.Luk 12:18Act 27:38Rev 6:6

• names bread specifically, the baked loaf that was the everyday dietary staple, a countable item you can hold and breakMat 14:17Mat 4:3
• the loaf Jesus took, broke, and gave as his body at the Last Supper; this is the word the Lord's Supper is built on, never a generic term for foodMat 26:26Mrk 14:22
• stands in the prayer for "daily bread," where the one staple loaf represents the whole of God's day-by-day provisionMat 6:11Luk 11:3

• both can describe what people eat together at a shared mealAct 2:46

• names food as the whole category of nourishment rather than any single item, so it can be set over against life itselfMat 6:25Luk 12:23
• the sustenance a body needs for strength and survival, urged on people who have gone without eatingAct 27:33Act 27:34
• figurative "solid food," the mature teaching a grown believer can take, as opposed to milkHeb 5:12Heb 5:14