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feeding

Meaning of “feeding”

Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of feed, meaning to give or take food; to nourish, tend, or graze. Sense 2: Food for animals.

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First occurrence: Genesis 37:2

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Every verse containing “feeding”

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Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 37:2 · retained source text

These are the generations of Iacob: Ioseph being seuenteene yeeres old, was feeding the flocke with his brethren, and the lad was with the sonnes of Bilhah, and with the sonnes of Zilpah, his fathers wiues: and Ioseph brought vnto his father their euill report.

Job 1:14
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 1:14 · retained source text

And there came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them,

Ezekiel 34:10
Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 34:10 · retained source text

Thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I am against the shepheards, and I will require my flocke at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flocke, neither shall the shepheards feede themselues any more: for I will deliuer my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

Matthew 8:30
And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Matthew 8:30 · retained source text

And there was a good way off from them, an heard of many swine, feeding.

Mark 5:11
Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 5:11 · retained source text

Now there was there nigh vnto the mountaines a great herd of swine, feeding.

Luke 8:32
And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Luke 8:32 · retained source text

And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountaine: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them: and he suffered them.

Luke 17:7
But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Luke 17:7 · retained source text

But which of you hauing a seruant plowing, or feeding cattell, will say vnto him by & by when he is come from the field, Goe and sit downe to meate?

Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jude 1:12 · retained source text

These are spottes in your feasts of charitie, when they feast with you, feeding themselues without feare: cloudes they are without water, caried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twise dead, plucked vp by the rootes.

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