Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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Food
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James 2:15
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
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לֶחֶם
lechem · lekh'-em
21 times translated as this KJV form294 total Strong's occurrences
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Strong's KJV usage: (shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 3:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 48:18
Open full H3899 profile →אֹכֶל
ʼôkel · o'-kel
16 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
food
Strong's KJV usage: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 41:35Strong's last: Proverbs 13:23
Open full H400 profile →מַאֲכָל
maʼăkâl · mah-ak-awl'
5 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit)
Strong's KJV usage: food, fruit, (bake-)meat(-s), victual.
Strong's first: Genesis 2:9Strong's last: Proverbs 6:8
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trophḗ · trof-ay'
2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
nourishment (literally or figuratively); by implication, rations (wages)
Strong's KJV usage: :--food, meat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 14:17Strong's last: James 2:15
Open full G5160 profile →βρῶσις
brōsis · bro'-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
(abstractly) eating (literally or figuratively); by extension (concretely) food (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--eating, food, meat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 9:10Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 9:10
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diatrophḗ · dee-at-rof-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
nourishment
Strong's KJV usage: :--food.
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 6:8Strong's last: 1 Timothy 6:8
Open full G1305 profile →אָכַל
ʼâkal · aw-kal'
1 times translated as this KJV form809 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 47:24Strong's last: Genesis 47:24
Open full H398 profile →אׇכְלָה
ʼoklâh · ok-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
food
Strong's KJV usage: consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
Strong's first: Genesis 6:21Strong's last: Genesis 6:21
Open full H402 profile →בּוּל
bûwl · bool
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
produce (of the earth, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: food, stock.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 40:20Strong's last: Job 40:20
Open full H944 profile →מַכֹּלֶת
makkôleth · mak-ko'-leth
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
nourishment
Strong's KJV usage: food.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 5:11Strong's last: 1 Kings 5:11
Open full H4361 profile →צַיִד
tsayid · tsah'-yid
1 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
the chase; also game (thus taken)
Strong's KJV usage: × catcheth, food, × hunter, (that which he took in) hunting, venison, victuals.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 38:41Strong's last: Job 38:41
Open full H6718 profile →שְׁאֵר
shᵉʼêr · sheh-ayr'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
flesh (as swelling out), as living or for food; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood
Strong's KJV usage: body, flesh, food, (near) kin(-sman, -swoman), near (nigh) (of kin).
Strong's first: Exodus 21:10Strong's last: Exodus 21:10
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H3899
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
H3899
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
H3899
And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
H3899
And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
H3899
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
H3899
Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
H3899
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
H4361
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
no direct Strong's tag
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
H3899
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
H6718
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
H944
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
H3899
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
H3899
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
H3899
Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
H3899
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
H3899
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
H3978
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
H400
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
H3899
And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
H3899
And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
H3899
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
H3899
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
H3899
She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
no direct Strong's tag
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
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food
FOOD, noun [See Feed.]
1. In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.
2. Meat; aliment; flesh or vegetables eaten for sustaining human life; victuals; provisions; whatever is or may be eaten for nourishment.
Feed me with food convenient for me. Proverbs 30:8.
3. Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, etc. Manuring substances furnish plants with food
4. Something that sustains, nourishes and augments. Flattery is the food of vanity.
FOOD, verb transitive To feed. [Not in use.]
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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