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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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Read in context →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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ʼâkal · aw-kal'
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, × freely, × in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, × quite.
Strong's first: Genesis 2:16Strong's last: Zechariah 11:16
Open full H398 profile →phágō · fag'-o
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--eat, meat.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:25Strong's last: Revelation 19:18
Open full G5315 profile →esthíō · es-thee'-o
used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by G5315; to eat (usually literal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour, eat, live.
Strong's first: Matthew 12:1Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 3:12
Open full G2068 profile →lâcham · law-kham'
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
Strong's KJV usage: devour, eat, × ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Strong's first: Psalms 141:4Strong's last: Proverbs 23:6
Open full H3898 profile →bârâh · baw-raw'
to select; to feed; to render clear
Strong's KJV usage: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 3:35Strong's last: 2 Samuel 13:10
Open full H1262 profile →synesthíō · soon-es-thee'-o
to take food in company with
Strong's KJV usage: :--eat with.
Strong's first: Acts 10:41Strong's last: Galatians 2:12
Open full G4906 profile →ʼoklâh · ok-law'
food
Strong's KJV usage: consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
Strong's first: Exodus 16:15Strong's last: Leviticus 11:39
Open full H402 profile →ṭᵉʻam · teh-am'
to taste; causatively to feed
Strong's KJV usage: make to eat, feed.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:25Strong's last: Daniel 4:32
Open full H2939 profile →geúomai · ghyoo'-om-ahee
to taste; by implication, to eat; figuratively, to experience (good or ill)
Strong's KJV usage: :--eat, taste.
Strong's first: Acts 23:14Strong's last: Acts 23:14
Open full G1089 profile →katesthíō · kat-es-thee'-o
to eat down, i.e. devour (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour.
Strong's first: Revelation 10:9Strong's last: Revelation 10:9
Open full G2719 profile →nomḗ · nom-ay'
pasture, i.e. (the act) feeding (figuratively, spreading of a gangrene), or (the food) pasturage
Strong's KJV usage: :--X eat, pasture.
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:17Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:17
Open full G3542 profile →ʼăkal · ak-al'
Strong's KJV usage: accuse, devour, eat.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:33Strong's last: Daniel 4:33
Open full H399 profile →châlal · khaw-lal'
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
Open full H2490 profile →lechem · lekh'-em
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Strong's KJV usage: (shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
Strong's first: Job 3:24Strong's last: Job 3:24
Open full H3899 profile →peh · peh
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
Open full H6310 profile →râʻâh · raw-aw'
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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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
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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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