Stew
נָזִידStrong’s H5138nazid (na-zid)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nazid is the Hebrew word usually translated “cooked food”, “cooked food of” and “some of the cooked food”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:”
Meaning
- Boiled food, soup, pottage, thing sodden or boiled
How it's translated
- cooked food 3
- and cooked food of 1
- the cooked food 1
- some of the cooked food 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 3
- Genesis 2
- Haggai 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
- 2 Kings 4:38And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
- 2 Kings 4:39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
- 2 Kings 4:40So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
- Haggai 2:12If 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.
Hebrew dictionary
נָזִיד nazid · stew
boiled food, soup, pottage, thing sodden or boiled
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stew” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STEW, verb transitive
- To seethe or gently boil; to boil slowly in a moderate manner, or with a simmering heat; as, to stew meat; to stew applies; to stew prunes.
- To boil in heat.
All definitions and other forms of “stew”
STEW, verb intransitive
To be seethed in a slow gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
STEW, noun
- A hot house; a bagnio.
- A brothel; a house of prostitution; but generally or always used int he plural, stews.
- A prostitute. [Not in use.]
- [See Stow.] A store pond; a small pond where fish are kept for the table. [Not used.]
- Meat stewed; as a stew of pigeons.
- Confusion, as when the air is full of dust. [Not in use or local.]
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.