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Bun

מָעוֹגStrong’s H4580

maog (ma-og)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Maog is the Hebrew word usually translated “food” and “cake”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
1 Kings 17:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cake
How it's translated
  • food 1
  • cake 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 1
  • Psalms 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מָעוֹג maog · bun

cake

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.]

  1. In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.
  2. 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
  3. Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, etc.
  4. 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.