Lexicon :: Strong's H400 - 'ōḵel

The four kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on.

“Let them gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. Under Pharaoh’s authority, store the grain in the cities, so they may preserve it as food.

Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.

“Where do you come from? ” he asked.

“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.

“No, my lord. Your servants have come to buy food,” they said.

When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little food.”

“If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

They said, “My lord, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.

“We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don’t know who put our silver in the bags.”

Joseph commanded his steward, “Fill the men’s bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver at the top of his bag.

“But our father said, ‘Go again, and buy us a little food.’

“At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.”

“If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat.

“This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts[fn] per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’ ”

When they measured it by quarts,[fn] the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat.

They gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

“Any edible food coming into contact with that unclean water will become unclean, and any drinkable liquid in any container will become unclean.

“You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

“You may purchase food from them, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink.

“You can sell us food in exchange for silver so we may eat, and give us water for silver so we may drink. Only let us travel through on foot,

“Do not charge your brother interest on silver, food, or anything that can earn interest.

At mealtime Boaz told her, “Come over here and have some bread and dip it in the vinegar sauce.” So she sat beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

They sweep by like boats made of papyrus,

like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Doesn’t the ear test words

as the palate tastes food?

Nothing is left for him to consume;

therefore, his prosperity will not last.

For he judges the nations with these;

he gives food in abundance.

Who provides the raven’s food

when its young cry out to God

and wander about for lack of food?

From there it searches for prey;

its eyes penetrate the distance.

They deliberately[fn] tested God,

demanding the food they craved.

Before they had turned from what they craved,

while the food was still in their mouths,

The young lions roar for their prey

and seek their food from God.

All of them wait for you

to give them their food at the right time.

They loathed all food

and came near the gates of death.

All eyes look to you,

and you give them their food at the proper time.

The uncultivated field of the poor yields abundant food,

but without justice, it is swept away.

All her people groan

while they search for bread.

They have traded their precious belongings for food

in order to stay alive.

LORD, look and see

how I have become despised.

I called to my lovers,

but they betrayed me.

My priests and elders

perished in the city

while searching for food

to keep themselves alive.

Hasn’t the food been cut off

before our eyes,

joy and gladness

from the house of our God?

Though the fig tree does not bud

and there is no fruit on the vines,

though the olive crop fails

and the fields produce no food,

though the flocks disappear from the pen

and there are no herds in the stalls,

“But you are profaning it when you say, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.’