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meat

Meaning of “meat”

Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.

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290 occurrences274 verses38 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 1:29

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Joel 1:9
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joel 1:9 · retained source text

The meate offring and the drinke offering is cut off from the house of the LORD, the Priestes the LORDs ministers mourne.

Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joel 1:13 · retained source text

Gird your selues, and lament, yee Priests: howle, ye ministers of the Altar: come, lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drinke offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Joel 1:16
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joel 1:16 · retained source text

Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God?

Joel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joel 2:14 · retained source text

Who knoweth if he will returne and repent, and leaue a blessing behind him, euen a meate offring and a drinke offring vnto the LORD your God?

1611 marginal noteIon.3.9.

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John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.