Food
מָזוֹןStrong’s H4202mazon (ma-zon)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mazon is the Hebrew word usually translated “food”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.”
Meaning
- Food, sustenance
How it's translated
- and food 1
- food 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מָזוֹן mazon · food
food, sustenance Aramaic equivalent: ma.zon (מָזוֹן "food" H4203)
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.