Food
βρῶμαStrong’s G1033brōma
Appears in 15 verses of the New Testament
In short
Brōma is the Greek word usually translated “food”, “foods” and “solid food”. It appears in 15 verses of the New Testament.
“Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.”
Meaning
Usually translated “food”, “foods” and “solid food”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- food 11
- foods 2
- solid food 1
- for foods 1
- from foods 1
- by foods 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Corinthians 5
- Luke 2
- Romans 2
- Hebrews 2
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 14:15And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
- Mark 7:19Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
- Luke 3:11He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
- Luke 9:13But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
- John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- Romans 14:15But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Greek dictionary
βρῶμα brōma · food
βρῶμα, -τος, τό (cf. βιβρώσκω), [in LXX chiefly for אֹכֶל ;] food: Rom.14:15, 20 1Co.8:8, 13 10:3; pl., Mat.14:15, Mrk.7:19, Luk.3:11 9:13, 1Co.6:13, 1Ti.4:3, Heb.9:10 13:9; trop., of spiritual food, Jhn.4:34, 1Co.3:2 (cf. βρῶσις).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “food” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOOD, noun
[See Feed.]
- In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.
- Meat; aliment; flesh or vegetables eaten for sustaining human life; victuals; provisions; whatever is or may be eaten for nourishment.“Feed me with food convenient for me” Proverbs 30:8
- Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, etc.
- Something that sustains, nourishes and augments.
All definitions and other forms of “food”
FOOD, verb transitive
To feed. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.