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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

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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.

Amos 5:22
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Amos 5:22 · retained source text

Though ye offer me burnt offerings, and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

1611 marginal noteOr, thanke offerings.

Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Habakkuk 1:16 · retained source text

Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their drag: because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

1611 marginal noteOr, daintie: Heb. fat.

Habakkuk 3:17
¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Habakkuk 3:17 · retained source text

¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossome, neither shall fruite bee in the vines: the labour of the Oliue shall faile, and the fields shal yeeld no meat, the flocke shall be cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no heard in the stalles:

1611 marginal noteHeb. lie.

Haggai 2:12
If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Haggai 2:12 · retained source text

If one beare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt doe touch bread or pottage, or wine, or oile, or any meate, shall it be holy? and the priests answered and said, No.

Malachi 1:12
¶ But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Malachi 1:12 · retained source text

¶ But yee haue prophaned it, in that yee say; The table of the LORD is polluted, and the fruite thereof, euen his meate, is contemptible.

Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Malachi 3:10 · retained source text

Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be meate in mine house, & proue me now herewith, saith the LORD of hostes, if I will not open you the windowes of heauen, and powre you out a blessing, that there shall not be roome enough to receiue it.

1611 marginal noteHeb. emptie out.

1611 marginal noteGen.7.11

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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.