food: anything eaten, whatever serves as something to eat
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This is a plain, everyday word for food, built directly on the common verb "to eat," so at heart it means simply "something to eat." It covers the whole range of edible things rather than any one kind of dish.
The word stays the same while what is being eaten changes. It can name the fare on a king's table, the provisions a household gathers, the fruit hanging on a tree, or, in the grim language of judgment oracles, a corpse left in the open. Only the context tells you which is in view.
Because the word is this broad, older English Bibles translate it several different ways, most famously "meat," which once meant food of any kind. A modern reader should hear the wide, simple sense: food, whatever is eaten.
Nuances
1afood that people eat: a meal, provisions, or fare set out to be eaten
Gen 6:21Gen 40:17Jdg 14:141Ki 10:51Ch 12:40(41)2Ch 9:42Ch 11:11Ezr 3:7Job 33:20Pro 6:8Isa 62:8Ezk 4:10
1bfood as the edible yield of a plant: fruit or produce good to eat
Gen 2:9Gen 3:6Lev 19:23Deu 20:20Neh 9:25Ezk 47:12
1cprey: a creature or corpse given over to be devoured, as bodies left for birds and wild animals
Deu 28:26Psa 44:11(12)Psa 74:14Psa 79:2Jer 7:33Jer 16:4Jer 19:7Jer 34:20