Bible Thesaurus: Diet

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Diet (2 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To eat; to take one's meals. 6. (vi) To eat according to prescribed rules;
to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet. ...DIET. ...
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Ospray (2 Occurrences)
... OSPRAY. os'-pra (`ozniyah; haliaetos; Latin Pandion haliaetus): A large hawk preferring
a diet of fish. The word is found in the list of abominations only. ...
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Beans (2 Occurrences)
... They formed a constituent in the bread Ezekiel (4:9) was commanded to make,
as they were in general much used as an article of diet. ...
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Ostrich (9 Occurrences)
... The Hebrew words ya`anah, which means "greediness," and bath ha-ya`anah, "daughter
of greediness," are made to refer to the indiscriminate diet of the ostrich ...
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Diest (10 Occurrences)

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Fig (45 Occurrences)
... Figs were used medicinally (2 Kings 20:7), and pressed together and formed into
"cakes" as articles of diet (1 Samuel 30:12; Jeremiah 24:2). ...
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Vulture (16 Occurrences)
... On account of their steady diet of carrion, no one ever has been able to use their
flesh for food, although some daring ornithologists have tried. ...
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Nurture (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The act of nourishing or nursing; bringing up; early education. 2. (n.)
That which nourishes; food; diet. 3. (vt) To feed; to nourish. ...
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Ossifrage (2 Occurrences)
... It was included among the abominations because of its diet of carrion. Gene
Stratton-Porter. Multi-Version Concordance Ossifrage (2 Occurrences). ...
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Low (216 Occurrences)
... (superl.) Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate. 25. (superl.)
Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet. 26. ...
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Bible Concordance

Diet (2 Occurrences)

Mark 1:6 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 52:34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
(KJV WBS)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

2. (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

3. (v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.

4. (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

5. (v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.

6. (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

7. (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

DIET

di'-et ('aruchah, "prescribed"): A daily allowance or portion of food, as that given by King Evil-merodach to Jehoiachin, king of Judah (Jeremiah 52:34 the King James Version; compare 2 Kings 25:30).

Greek

2068. esthio -- to eat
... Word Origin akin to edo (to eat) Definition to eat NASB Word Usage ate (21), consume
(2), diet (1), dine (1), does so (1), eat (96), eaten (2), eating (19 ...
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1467. egkrateuomai -- to exercise self-control
... contain, be temperate. Middle voice from egkrates; to exercise self-restraint (in
diet and chastity) -- can(-not) contain, be temperate. see GREEK egkrates. ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
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Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps on the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
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Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
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1 Timothy 5:23
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities.
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Ezekiel 4:9
Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof, according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days shall you eat thereof.
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Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
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Daniel 1:12
Prove your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
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Daniel 1:15
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
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Strong's Hebrew

737. aruchah -- a meal, allowance
... allowance, diet, dinner, victuals. Feminine passive participle of 'arach (in the
sense of appointing); a ration of food -- allowance, diet, dinner, victuals. ...
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Library

Luther Before the Diet.
... 8. LUTHER BEFORE THE DIET. ... As the news was circulated at Worms that Luther was
to appear before the Diet, a general excitement was created. ...
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Luther Before the Diet
... Chapter 8 Luther Before the Diet. ... As the news was circulated at Worms that Luther
was to appear before the Diet, a general excitement was created. ...
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A Diet of Public Worship in the Time of Knox.
... Chapter IV. A Diet of Public Worship in the Time of Knox. "What I have ... be
it.". Such was the course of an ordinary diet of worship. If ...
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To J. Tarn, Esq. , Under-Treasurer of the British and Foreign ...
... Paid for fare to Hamburg by steam-boat, diet not included, 7 pounds, 0s 0d. ... diet,
servants, and baggage fees at Stade on the Hanoverian coast, 1 pound, 9s, 0d. ...
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Concerning Daniel and what Befell Him at Babylon.
... them to be eunuchs; which course he took also with those of other nations whom he
had taken in the flower of their age, and afforded them their diet from his ...
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The Letter of Majesty, 1603-1609.
... a body of armed men to close the Brethren's Houses at Jungbunzlau; and then, having
disgusted two-thirds of his loyal subjects, he summoned a Diet, and asked ...
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Preface to the Emperor Charles V.
... Most Invincible Emperor, Caesar Augustus, Most Clement Lord: Inasmuch as Your Imperial
Majesty has summoned a Diet of the Empire here at Augsburg to deliberate ...
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Home-Education.
... of mind. It refers to the proper management of the health of the child,
its diet, habits of exercise and recreation. Parents should ...
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The Tetrapolitan Confession.
... Vol. XV. pp.574-576. Comp. also the literature on the Augsburg Diet and the Augsburg
Confession, especially Salig and Förstemann, quoted in Sec. 41, p.225. ...
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The Downfall, 1616-1621.
... As Matthias was growing old and feeble, it was time to choose his successor; and
Matthias, therefore, summoned a Diet, and informed the Estates, to their great ...
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Subtopics

Diet

The Diet of the Jews in Egypt

The Diet of the Jews in Patriarchal Age

The Diet of the Jews in the Wilderness

The Diet of the Jews of the Poor, Frugal

The Diet of the Jews of the Rich, Luxurious

The Diet of the Jews was Taken in the Evening

The Diet of the Jews was Taken in the Morning, Sparingly

The Diet of the Jews was Taken with the Hand

The Diet of the Jews was Taken: At Noon

The Diet of the Jews was Taken: Often Reclining