Words the Bible translates as meat
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- basarבָּשָׂרflesh: the soft tissue of a body, whether as the meat people eat or as the living skin and muscle of a person or animal
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- all flesh: every living creature, or all of humanity, taken together as one whole
- kin: a blood relative, the family bond named as shared flesh
- frail humanity: the human creature as weak, mortal, and small before God
- kreasκρέαςmeatnot studied yet
- 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
- tevaḥטֶבַחslaughter: the butchering of an animal, and the cutting down of people pictured as exactly that
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