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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And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
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.
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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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