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Lexicon :: Strong's G1035 - brōsis

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βρῶσις
Transliteration
brōsis (Key)
Pronunciation
bro'-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of βιβρώσκω (G977)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:642,111

Strong’s Definitions

βρῶσις brōsis, bro'-sis; from the base of G977; (abstractly) eating (literally or figuratively); by extension (concretely) food (literally or figuratively):—eating, food, meat.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G1035 in the following manner: meat (6x), rust (2x), morsel of meat (1x), eating (1x), food (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G1035 in the following manner: meat (6x), rust (2x), morsel of meat (1x), eating (1x), food (1x).
  1. act of eating

    1. in a wider sense, corrosion

  2. that which is eaten, food, aliment

    1. of the soul's food, either which refreshes the soul, or nourishes and supports it

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βρῶσις brōsis, bro'-sis; from the base of G977; (abstractly) eating (literally or figuratively); by extension (concretely) food (literally or figuratively):—eating, food, meat.
STRONGS G1035:
βρῶσις, -εως, , (βρόω, βιβρώσκω);
1. the act of eating (Tertullian esus): βρῶσις κ. πόσις, Romans 14:17 (on which see βασιλεία, 3); with the genitive of the object 1 Corinthians 8:4 (Plato, de rep. 10, p. 619 c. παίδων αὐτοῦ); in a wider sense, corrosion: Matthew 6:19f.
2. as almost everywhere in Greek writings that which is eaten, food, aliment: Hebrews 12:16; εἰς βρῶσιν for food, 2 Corinthians 9:10 (Wis. 4:5); βρῶσις καὶ [so WH text Tr marginal reading; others ] πόσις, Colossians 2:16 (Homer, Odyssey 1, 191; Plato, legg. 6, 783 c.; Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 15; [cf. Fritzsche on Romans iii., p. 200 note; per contra Meyer or Ellicott on Colossians, the passage cited]), used of the soups aliment — either that which refreshes it, John 4:32, or nourishes and supports it unto life eternal, John 6:27, 55.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
6:19
John
4:32; 6:27; 6:55
Romans
14:17
1 Corinthians
8:4
2 Corinthians
9:10
Colossians
2:16
Hebrews
12:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1035 matches the Greek βρῶσις (brōsis),
which occurs 37 times in 36 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Behold, I have given to you every plant yielding seed that is on the [fn]surface of all the earth, and every tree [fn]which has the fruit of the tree yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the [fn]sky and to every thing that creeps on the earth [fn]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And out of the ground Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that is desirable in appearance and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may surely eat;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, so she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because [fn]he had an appetite for hunted game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:24 - “And it will be, at the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and [fn]four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24 - ‘Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but you must certainly not eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:7 - ‘So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an offense; it will not be accepted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:7 - ‘Even your cattle and the beasts that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 -

They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by [fn]plague

And bitter destruction;

And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - So he said to them,

“Out of the eater came something to eat,

And out of the strong came something sweet.”

But they could not tell the riddle in three days.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - ‘And did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - And the king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to [fn]us. Why then [fn]are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense, or has [fn]anything been taken for us?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8 - So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 -

So that his life loathes bread,

And his soul favorite food.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:3 -

“For the ear tests words

As the palate tastes food.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4 -

Do all the workers of iniquity not know,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And do not call upon Yahweh?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:11 -

You give us as sheep [fn]to be eaten

And have scattered us among the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:4 -

Do the workers of iniquity not know,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread

And do not call upon God?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:30 -

[fn]Before they had satisfied their desire,

While their food was in their mouths,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21 -

The young lions roar to go after their prey

And to seek their food from God.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 -

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

And do not return there without watering the earth

And making it bear and sprout,

And giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - “The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 -

“I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and bring to ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “I will empty out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem to the point of destruction in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 -

Kaph

All her people are sighing, seeking bread;

They have given their desirable things for food

To restore their souls.

“See, O Yahweh, and look,

For I am despised.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 -

Qoph

“I called to my lovers, but they deceived me;

My priests and my elders breathed their last in the city

While they sought food for themselves in order to restore their souls.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:10 -

Yodh

The hands of compassionate women

Boiled their own children;

They became food for them

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:12 - “And by the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not [fn]fail. They will bear every month because their water flows out from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would [fn]make me forfeit my head to the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 -

Though the fig tree should not blossom

And there be no produce on the vines,

Though the yield of the olive should fail

And the fields yield no food,

Though the flock should be cut off from the fold

And there be no cattle in the stalls,

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - “Then I will rebuke the devourer for you so that it will not corrupt the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field [fn]fail to bear,” says Yahweh of hosts.
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