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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 you every plant yielding seed that is on the [fn]surface of all the earth, and every tree [fn]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that [fn]moves on the earth [fn]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - When 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, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Now Isaac loved Esau because [fn]he had a taste for game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:24 - [fn]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 animals may be put to any other use, but you certainly are not to eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:7 - ‘So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean; it will not be accepted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:7 - ‘Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 -

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

And a bitter epidemic;

And the teeth of beasts I will send against 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 answer to the riddle in three days.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - ‘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, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is weary 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 are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all [fn]at the king’s expense, or has anything been taken for us?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8 - So he arose and ate and drank, and he journeyed in the strength of that food for 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, food [fn]that he should crave.

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 injustice not know,

Who devour my people as they eat bread,

And do not call upon the LORD?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:11 -

You turn us over [fn]to be eaten like sheep,

And have scattered us among the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:4 -

Have the workers of injustice no knowledge,

Who eat up My people like they ate bread,

And have not called upon God?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:30 -

[fn]Yet before they had abandoned their longing,

While their food was in their mouths,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21 -

The young lions roar for their prey

[fn]And 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 produce and sprout,

And providing 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 animals of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 -

“And I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the LORD: “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “And I will frustrate the planning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will make their carcasses food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - I will hand them over to their enemies and to those who seek their lives. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 -

All her people groan, seeking bread;

They have given their treasures for food

To restore their [fn]lives.

“See, LORD, and look,

For I am despised.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 -

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

My priests and my elders perished in the city

While they sought food to restore their [fn]strength themselves.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:10 -

The hands of compassionate women

Boiled their own children;

They became food for them

Due to 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 fail. They will bear fruit every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - The commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has allotted your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking gaunt in comparison to the youths who are your own age? Then you would [fn]make me forfeit my head to the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 -

Even if the fig tree does not blossom,

And there is no [fn]fruit on the vines,

If the yield of the olive fails,

And the fields produce no food,

Even if the flock disappears from the fold,

And there are no cattle in the stalls,

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - “Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground; nor will the vine in the field prove fruitless to you,” says the LORD of armies.
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