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Matthew 14:15 βρώματα.¶ food.

When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”

Here: Plural, "foods" or "provisions". It is a general word for something to eat, mainly bread and perhaps dried fish in this setting.

Mark 7:19 βρώματα. food.

because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)

Luke 3:11 βρώματα food

John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”

Here: Plural: "foodstuffs", the provisions you have on hand. It means food in general, not meat in particular.

Luke 9:13 βρώματα. food.

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

Here: Food in general, in the plural ('provisions'). It is not meat in particular, despite the KJV's 'meat'.

John 4:34 βρῶμά food

Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

Here: Ordinary food, what you eat. Jesus takes the disciples' literal concern (they had brought food) and uses it as a picture of what actually keeps him going.

Romans 14:15 βρῶμα βρώματί food

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Here: Food in general. In context it means especially meat and other food that some Roman believers would not eat (v. 2, 21). The word is deliberately plain: it is "just food".

Romans 14:20 βρώματος food

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

Here: Food in general, anything eaten. It is not the specific word for animal flesh (that is kreas, v. 21). The word sounds deliberately small next to 'the work of God.'

1 Corinthians 3:2 βρῶμα· solid food;

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

Here: Food that has to be eaten and chewed, as opposed to drink. Here it means the adult's meal as opposed to the baby's milk. It does not mean "meat" in the sense of flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:13 βρώματα βρώμασιν· foods, for foods;

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Here: Food in general, whatever is eaten. The plural means 'foods of every kind'. It is the same word Paul uses for the food-sacrificed-to-idols debate in chapter 8.

1 Corinthians 8:8 βρῶμα Food

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

Here: Food in general, though the context (8:1–7) points to the meat from animals sacrificed in pagan temples that was later eaten at temple banquets or sold at market. It comes first in the sentence for emphasis: 'Food, though, is not what…'

1 Corinthians 8:13 βρῶμα food

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

Here: Food in general, the broad category Paul has been discussing (8:8: 'food will not bring us near to God'). Here it points to food eaten in circumstances tied to idols.

1 Corinthians 10:3 βρῶμα food

They all ate the same spiritual food

Here: Ordinary solid food, something you eat. Here it means the manna of Exodus 16. It is also the word Paul has been using for food offered to idols in chapter 8, which links the example to the Corinthians' own question.

1 Timothy 4:3 βρωμάτων from foods

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Here: "From foods". It means food of any kind, not meat in particular. The plural with no article points to kinds of food the teachers ruled out. The exact list is not given. Meat and wine are the usual suspects in ancient asceticism (the practice of strict self-denial).

Hebrews 9:10 βρώμασιν foods

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

Here: Foods. Most likely the laws of clean and unclean food (Leviticus 11) and the rules for eating sacrificial portions. The same word comes back in Hebrews 13:9: 'not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them'.

Hebrews 13:9 βρώμασιν by foods

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

Here: "By foods." This means food in general, not just meat. In Hebrews it recalls 9:10, where the old arrangement is summed up as "foods and drinks and various washings," rules for the body that lasted only until the time of correction. Verse 10 goes straight on to altars and eating rights, which points to food tied to religious ritual.