31 occurrences

'Food' in the Bible

And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.

For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

Related Words

Bible Theasaurus

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אכל 
'okel 
Usage: 44

אכלה 
'oklah 
Usage: 18

בּוּל 
Buwl 
Usage: 2

לחם 
Lechem 
Usage: 298

מאכל 
Ma'akal 
Usage: 30

מכּלת 
Makkoleth 
Usage: 1

ציד 
Tsayid 
Usage: 19

שׁאר 
Sh@'er 
Usage: 16

βρῶσις 
Brosis 
Usage: 5

διατροφή 
Diatrophe 
Usage: 1

τροφή 
Trophe 
meat , food , some meat , not tr
Usage: 12

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain