Food
בִּרְיָהStrong’s H1279biryah (bir-yah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Biryah is the Hebrew word usually translated “food”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.”
Meaning
- Food
How it's translated
- the food 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 3
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Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 13:7Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him meat.
- 2 Samuel 13:10And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
Hebrew dictionary
בִּרְיָה biryah · food
food
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.