Words the Bible translates as meal
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 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.
- 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
- aristonἄριστονthe earlier of the day's two main meals: a daytime meal, usually around midday, set against the main evening dinner
- qemaḥקֶמַחflour: grain ground down at the mill, the ordinary everyday grade a household bakes with rather than the finest sifted kind
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