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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Eat

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

655exact KJV occurrences 520Old Testament 135New Testament 49books containing the word 16mapped Strong's IDs 631occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 2:16

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 19:18

That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where eat appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

AramaicH2939
טְעַם

ṭᵉʻam · teh-am'

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

v

to taste; causatively to feed

Strong's KJV usage: make to eat, feed.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Daniel 4:25Strong's last: Daniel 4:32

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GreekG3542
νομή

nomḗ · nom-ay'

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

pasture, i.e. (the act) feeding (figuratively, spreading of a gangrene), or (the food) pasturage

Strong's KJV usage: :--X eat, pasture.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:17Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:17

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HebrewH2490
חָלַל

châlal · khaw-lal'

1 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)

Strong's KJV usage: begin (× men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 20:6Strong's last: Deuteronomy 20:6

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HebrewH6310
פֶּה

peh · peh

1 times translated as this KJV form496 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to

Strong's KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), × eat, edge, end, entry, file, hole, × in, mind, mouth, part, portion, × (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, × spoken, talk, tenor, × to, two-edged, wish, word.

Strong's first: Genesis 25:28Strong's last: Genesis 25:28

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HebrewH7462
רָעָה

râʻâh · raw-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences

v

to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)

Strong's KJV usage: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.

Strong's first: Ezekiel 34:19Strong's last: Ezekiel 34:19

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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17 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Clear
Matthew 6:25
G5315

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Matthew 6:31
G5315

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Matthew 12:1
G2068

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

Matthew 12:4
G5315

How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

Matthew 12:4
G5315

How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

Matthew 14:16
G5315

But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

Matthew 14:20
G5315

And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

Matthew 15:2
G2068

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 15:20
G5315

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Matthew 15:27
G2068

And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Matthew 15:32
G5315

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Matthew 15:37
G5315

And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

Matthew 15:38
G2068

And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

Matthew 24:49
G2068

And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

Matthew 26:17
G5315

Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

Matthew 26:21
G2068

And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

Matthew 26:26
G5315

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

eat

EAT, verb transitive preterit tense ate; participle passive eat or eaten. [Latin edo, esse, esum.]

1. To bite or chew and swallow, as food.

Men eat flesh and vegetables.

They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen. Daniel 4:25.

2. To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing. We say a cancer eats the flesh.

3. To consume; to waste.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them. Ecclesiastes 5:11.

4. To enjoy.

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1:19.

5. To consume; to oppress.

Who eat up my people as they eat bread. Psalms 14:4.

6. To feast.

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Isaiah 22:13.

In scripture, to eat the flesh of Christ, is to believe on him and be nourished by faith.

To eat one's words, is to swallow back; to take back what has been uttered; to retract.

EAT, verb intransitive To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.

He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam.

Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners. Matthew 9:11.

1. To take food; to be maintained in food.

To eat or to eat in or into, is to make way by corrosion; to gnaw, to enter by gradually wearing or separating the parts of a substance. A cancer eats into the flesh.

Their word will eat as doth a canker. 2 Timothy 2:17.

To eat out, to consume.

Their word will eat out the vitals of religion, corrupt and destroy it.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.