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eat

Meaning of “eat”

To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:16

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Mark 1:6
And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Mark 1:6 · retained source text

And Iohn was clothed with camels haire, and with a girdle of a skin about his loines: and he did eat locusts and wilde honie,

1611 marginal noteMatt. 3.4.

Mark 2:16
And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 2:16 · retained source text

And when the Scribes and Pharisees saw him eate with Publicanes and sinners, they said vnto his disciples, How is it that hee eateth and drinketh with Publicanes and sinners?

Mark 2:26
How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 2:26 · retained source text

How hee went into the house of God in the dayes of Abiathar the high Priest, and did eate the Shew-bread, which is not lawfull to eate, but for the Priests, and gaue also to them which were with him?

Mark 3:20
And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 3:20 · retained source text

And the multitude commeth together againe, so that they could not so much as eate bread.

Mark 6:31
And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 6:31 · retained source text

And he said vnto them, Come yee your selues apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many comming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eate.

Mark 6:36
Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 6:36 · retained source text

Send them away, that they may goe into the countrey round about, and into the villages, and buy themselues bread: for they haue nothing to eate.

Mark 6:37
He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Mark 6:37 · retained source text

He answered and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they say vnto him, Shall we goe and buy two hundred penniworth of bread, and giue them to eate?

1611 marginal noteThe Rom. penie is seuen pence halfe penie as Mat. 18.28

Mark 6:42
And they did all eat, and were filled.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Mark 6:42 · retained source text

And they did all eate, and were filled.

Mark 6:44
And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 6:44 · retained source text

And they that did eate of the loaues, were about fiue thousand men.

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