KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 1:29
Complete exact-word concordance
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.
All her people sigh, they seek bread, they haue giuen their pleasant things for meate to relieue the soule: see, O LORD, & consider: for I am become vile.
1611 marginal noteOr, to make the soule to come againe.
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
I called for my louers, but they deceiued me: my priests and mine elders gaue vp the ghost in the citie, while they sought their meat to relieue their soules
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
1611 marginal note2.Kings 6.29. deut. 28.57.
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
