Words the Bible translates as food
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 23 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- leḥemלֶחֶםfood: sustenance broadly, including meals, livelihood, and the grain supply that keeps people alive.
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- bread: a baked loaf, the physical product of ground grain.
- brōmaβρῶμαfood: anything eaten to nourish the body
- brōsisβρῶσιςeating: the taking of food, and by extension the food that is taken
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- eating away: the slow consuming that ruins what has been stored up
- trophēτροφήfood: whatever is eaten to nourish and sustain life
- okhelאֹכֶלfood: anything eaten, especially as a supply or provision
- ma'akhalמַאֲכָלfood: anything eaten, whatever serves as something to eat
- terephטֶרֶףprey: the flesh a predator tears and eats, and by extension what is seized as plunder or simply provided as food
- okhlahאׇכְלָהfood: something given to be eaten or consumed, whether nourishment for the living, prey for wild animals, or fuel for fire
- episitismosἐπισιτισμόςfoodnot studied yet
- she'erשְׁאֵרflesh: the meat of a living body, whether the food it provides or one's own physical frame
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- a blood relative: a member of one's own family, near of kin
- chortasmaχόρτασμαfoodnot studied yet
- tsedahצֵידָהprovisions: the food people gather up and take with them when they leave home.
- sheverשֶׁבֶרgrain as something bought and sold: the food a household pays for when its own harvest has failed
- miḥyahמִחְיָהwhat keeps a life going: the rescue, the food, or the returning strength that lets someone survive.
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- the patch of living flesh showing inside a skin sore or a burn.
- biryahבִּרְיָהfoodnot studied yet
- diatrophēδιατροφήfoodnot studied yet
- mazonמָזוֹןfoodnot studied yet
- mazonמָזוֹןfoodnot studied yet
- sitionσιτίονfoodnot studied yet
- akhilahאֲכִילָהfoodnot studied yet
- barutבָּרוּתfoodnot studied yet
- daḥavahדַּחֲוָהthe evening comforts a king would have had carried in to him: the exact sense is lost, and food, music, entertainment, and the women of the court have all been proposed
- makkoletמַכֹּלֶתfoodnot studied yet
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