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φάγω
phágō · Greek · Strong's G5315 · 93 occurrences
The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “meat”
What it means
to eat (literally or figuratively)
a primary verb (used as an alternate of G2068 (ἐσθίω) in certain tenses);
How the KJV renders it
eat, meat
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“meat”
“eat”
Answers that weigh this word
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?
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- Does the Bible forbid drinking alcohol?
- What happens to those who never heard the gospel?
Where it appears
93 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 8:8 · V-2AAS-1P
But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
1 Corinthians 8:13 · V-2AAS-1S
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 9:4 · V-2AAN
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians 10:3 · V-2AAI-3P
and all ate the same spiritual food;
1 Corinthians 10:7 · V-2AAN
Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
1 Corinthians 11:20 · V-2AAN
When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
1 Corinthians 11:21 V-2AAN1 Corinthians 11:33 V-2AAN1 Corinthians 15:32 V-2AAS-1P2 Thessalonians 3:8 V-2AAI-1PActs 9:9 V-2AAI-3SActs 10:13 V-2AAM-2SActs 10:14 V-2AAI-1SActs 11:7 V-2AAM-2SActs 23:12 V-2AANActs 23:21 V-2AANHebrews 13:10 V-2AANJames 5:3 V-FDI-3SJohn 4:31 V-2AAM-2SJohn 4:32 V-2AANJohn 4:33 V-2AANJohn 6:5 V-2AAS-3PJohn 6:23 V-2AAI-3PJohn 6:26 V-2AAI-2PJohn 6:31 V-2AAI-3PJohn 6:49 V-2AAI-3PJohn 6:50 V-2AAS-3SJohn 6:51 V-2AAS-3SJohn 6:52 V-2AANJohn 6:53 V-2AAS-2PJohn 6:58 V-2AAI-3PJohn 18:28 V-2AAS-3PLuke 4:2 V-2AAI-3SLuke 6:4 V-2AAI-3SLuke 7:36 V-2AAS-3SLuke 8:55 V-2AANLuke 9:13 V-2AANLuke 9:17 V-2AAI-3PLuke 12:19 V-2AAM-2SLuke 12:22 V-2AAS-2PLuke 12:29 V-2AAS-2PLuke 13:26 V-2AAI-1PLuke 14:1 V-2AANLuke 14:15 V-FDI-3SLuke 15:23 V-2AAP-NPMLuke 17:8 V-2AAS-1SLuke 22:8 V-2AAS-1PLuke 22:11 V-2AAS-1SLuke 22:15 V-2AANLuke 22:16 V-2AAS-1SLuke 24:43 V-2AAI-3SMatthew 6:25 V-2AAS-2PMatthew 6:31 V-2AAS-1PMatthew 12:4 V-2AAI-3PMatthew 14:16 V-2AANMatthew 14:20 V-2AAI-3PMatthew 15:20 V-2AANMatthew 15:32 V-2AAS-3PMatthew 15:37 V-2AAI-3PMatthew 25:35 V-2AAN
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