βρῶμα
brōma (G1033)
food
AI Word Study
The Greek word βρῶμα (brōma) is defined as "food". It falls within the semantic domain of Food & Drink, indicating its primary association with sustenance. This word is used 17 times in the Bible, suggesting its importance in various contexts. The meaning of βρῶμα is straightforward, referring to any type of edible substance consumed by humans. It encompasses a broad range of food items, from basic staples like bread and meat to more specific substances like herbs and spices. The word's usage in the Bible reveals its significance in everyday life, including in social gatherings, rituals, and even as a metaphor for spiritual nourishment. The frequency of βρῶμα's occurrence in the Bible underscores its importance in ancient Greek culture and the biblical narrative. Its range of usage spans from the mundane to the symbolic, highlighting the significance of food in human experience and its connection to identity, community, and spiritual well-being.
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When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”
because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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.
Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
and all ate the same spiritual food;
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.