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eat

Meaning of “eat”

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

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655 occurrences583 verses49 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:16

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Deuteronomy 8:9
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 8:9 · retained source text

A lande wherein thou shalt eate bread without scarcenes, thou shalt not lacke any thing in it: a lande whose stones are yron, and out of whose hils thou mayest digge brasse.

Deuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 9:9 · retained source text

When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the Tables of stone, euen the Tables of the Couenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount fortie dayes, and fortie nights, I neither did eate bread, nor drinke water:

1611 marginal noteExod. 24.18. and 34.28.

Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 9:18 · retained source text

And I fell downe before the LORD, as at the first, fortie dayes and fortie nights, I did neither eate bread nor drinke water, because of all your sinnes which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to prouoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 11:15
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 11:15 · retained source text

And I will send grasse in thy fields for thy cattell, that thou mayest eate and be full.

1611 marginal noteHeb. giue.

Deuteronomy 12:7
And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 12:7 · retained source text

And there ye shall eate before the LORD your God, and yee shall reioyce in all that you put your hand vnto, ye and your housholds, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

Deuteronomy 12:15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 12:15 · retained source text

Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eate flesh in all thy gates, whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath giuen thee: the vncleane and the cleane may eate thereof, as of the Roe bucke, and as of the Hart.

Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 12:16 · retained source text

Onely ye shall not eat the blood: yee shall powre it vpon the earth as water.

1611 marginal noteChap. 15.23.

Deuteronomy 12:17
¶ Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 12:17 · retained source text

¶ Thou mayest not eate within thy gates the tithe of thy corne, or of thy wine, or of thy oyle, or the firstlings of thy heards, or of thy flocke, nor any of thy vowes which thou vowest, nor thy free will offerings, or heaue offering of thine hand:

Deuteronomy 12:18
But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 12:18 · retained source text

But thou must eate them before the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant, and thy maid seruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt reioyce before the LORD thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hands vnto.

Deuteronomy 12:20
¶ When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
3 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 12:20 · retained source text

¶ When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eate flesh (because thy soule longeth to eat flesh) thou mayest eat flesh whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after.

1611 marginal noteGene. 28.14. chap. 19.9.

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