Sustenance
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) That which supports life; food; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.

2. (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

Greek
5527. chortasma -- fodder
... fodder. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: chortasma Phonetic Spelling:
(khor'-tas-mah) Short Definition: food, sustenance Definition: food ...
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740. artos -- bread, a loaf
... 740 -- properly, bread; (figuratively) divine provision; all the sustenance God
supplies to yielded believers scene-by-scene to live in His preferred-will ...
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Strong's Hebrew
4241. michyah -- preservation of life, sustenance
... 4240, 4241. michyah. 4242 . preservation of life, sustenance. Transliteration:
michyah Phonetic Spelling: (mikh-yaw') Short Definition: reviving. ...
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4202. mazon -- food, sustenance
... 4201, 4202. mazon. 4203 . food, sustenance. Transliteration: mazon Phonetic
Spelling: (maw-zone') Short Definition: food. Word Origin ...
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3557. kul -- to comprehend, contain
... 1), endure (5), had to provide (1), held (1), hold (4), holding (2), maintain (1),
provide (4), provided (6), provided them with sustenance (1), provisioned (1 ...
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2425b. chayyim -- life
... life NASB Word Usage alive (1), life (124), life-giving (1), lifetime (4), live
(5), live* (1), lived (2), lived* (1), lives (4), living (1), sustenance (1). ...
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4937. mish'en -- a support, staff
... stay Or mishtan {mish-awn'}; from sha'an; a support (concretely), ie (figuratively)
a protector or sustenance -- stay. see HEBREW sha'an. 4936, 4937. ...
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3633. Kalkol -- an Israelite noted for his wisdom
... noted for his wisdom NASB Word Usage Calcol (2). Calcol, Chalcol. From kuwl; sustenance;
Calcol, an Israelite -- Calcol, Chalcol. see HEBREW kuwl. 3632, 3633 ...
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4938. mish'enah -- a support, staff
... staff Or mishteneth {mish-eh'-neth}; feminine of mish'en; support (abstractly),
ie (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick -- staff. ...
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Library

How Ahab when He had Taken Jezebel to Wife Became More Wicked than ...
... for it lay between them, and this at the command of God, for [God told him] that
he should there find a woman who was a widow that should give him sustenance. ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 13 how ahab when.htm

The Good Shepherd
... is my law; Christ's providence is my guidance and defence"which in the present case
means Christ's companionship"is my safety, my sustenance"which in the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the good shepherd.htm

The Festal Life
... Now, in the notion of a feast, there are two things included"joy and plentiful
sustenance. ... That is the feeding which brings not only sustenance but life. ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/the festal life.htm

Excerpts of Theodotus;
... But mystically it shows that, as life is maintained in individuals by sustenance,
and want of sustenance is the token of death; so also ought we to fast from ...
/.../theodotus/excerpts of theodotus/excerpts of theodotus.htm

The Boy and the Sunday School
... symmetrical maturity. He needs but three things to attain his best: proper
sustenance, unlimited activity, and careful guidance. Given ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/v the boy and the.htm

On Clothes.
... These are the "What?" And of bare sustenance, dry and moist, as being necessaries,
He says, "Your Father knoweth that ye need these." And if, in a word, we are ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter xi name clothes.htm

Acts xxviii. 1
... 1166] more negligent, but what a liberal entertainment was given to them for Paul's
sake: and three months were they there, all of them provided with sustenance ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily liv acts xxviii 1.htm

The Mountain Road
... But this flock finds supplies on the barren hill-tops. Sustenance in Sorrow and
Loss. ... 2. Promise of sustenance of a higher kind even in sorrow. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the mountain road.htm

How Augustine, Coming into Britain, First Preached in the Isle of ...
... we desire not to harm you, but will give you favourable entertainment, and take
care to supply you with all things necessary to your sustenance; nor do we ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xxv how augustine coming.htm

Mercy must be Freely Shown Even Though it Brings an Odium of Its ...
... [565] Is it not much better that the priests should melt it down for the sustenance
of the ... Surely thou hadst gold? Thou shouldst have given them sustenance. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xxviii mercy must be.htm

Thesaurus
Sustenance (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) That which supports life; food; provisions; means
of living; as, the city has ample sustenance. ...Sustenance (11 Occurrences). ...
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Maintenance (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support;
defense; vindication. 2. (n.) That which maintains ...
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Provided (68 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he
had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a ...
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Swaddle

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Sustains (11 Occurrences)

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Victuals (32 Occurrences)
... (n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table;
that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands. Int. ...
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Victual (6 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store
with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship. ...
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Naked (56 Occurrences)
... defenseless. 3. (a.) Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories,
means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare. 4. (a ...
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Neighborhood (7 Occurrences)
... Judges 6:4 they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as
far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, and no ...
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Living (3112 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest
living. 4. (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate. ...
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Resources
What did Jesus mean when He said, “I am the True Vine” (John 15:1)? | GotQuestions.org

What is a love feast? | GotQuestions.org

What is the Shemitah? | GotQuestions.org

Sustenance: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance
Sustenance (11 Occurrences)

Acts 7:11
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
(KJV ASV WBS YLT)

1 Timothy 6:8
But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these.
(DBY)

Genesis 45:23
To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
(See NAS)

Judges 6:4
and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 17:10
And Micah saith to him, 'Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to thee ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and thy sustenance;' and the Levite goeth 'in'.
(YLT)

2 Samuel 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

2 Samuel 20:3
David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS)

1 Kings 4:7
And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household -- a month in the year is on each one for sustenance;
(YLT)

Psalms 109:10
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 6:8
She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 27:27
and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.
(DBY NAS)

Subtopics

Sustenance

Related Terms

Maintenance (4 Occurrences)

Provided (68 Occurrences)

Swaddle

Sustains (11 Occurrences)

Victuals (32 Occurrences)

Victual (6 Occurrences)

Naked (56 Occurrences)

Neighborhood (7 Occurrences)

Living (3112 Occurrences)

Gideon (45 Occurrences)

Widowhood (5 Occurrences)

Fourscore (33 Occurrences)

Foster (2 Occurrences)

Ruined (65 Occurrences)

Eighty (36 Occurrences)

Dearth (11 Occurrences)

Daily (111 Occurrences)

Mahana'im (13 Occurrences)

Barzil'lai (10 Occurrences)

Bread (433 Occurrences)

Barzillai (10 Occurrences)

Finding (57 Occurrences)

Concubines (18 Occurrences)

Calcol (2 Occurrences)

Chanaan (2 Occurrences)

Soul (554 Occurrences)

Silverlings (24 Occurrences)

Sustained (20 Occurrences)

Support (135 Occurrences)

Shepherd (76 Occurrences)

Comest (50 Occurrences)

Custody (27 Occurrences)

Siege (63 Occurrences)

Apocrypha

Tribulation (43 Occurrences)

Donkeys (71 Occurrences)

Dew (35 Occurrences)

Wealthy (22 Occurrences)

Crops (48 Occurrences)

Aged (63 Occurrences)

Spare (80 Occurrences)

Gaza (22 Occurrences)

Agriculture

Mahanaim (15 Occurrences)

Donkey (84 Occurrences)

Palace (194 Occurrences)

Encamped (115 Occurrences)

Prayer (406 Occurrences)

Entering (124 Occurrences)

Lord's (548 Occurrences)

Encamp (108 Occurrences)

Produce (140 Occurrences)

Increase (184 Occurrences)

Ass (95 Occurrences)

Either (152 Occurrences)

Shut (237 Occurrences)

Hospitality (9 Occurrences)

Old (3966 Occurrences)

Host (261 Occurrences)

Jacob (361 Occurrences)

Guard (185 Occurrences)

Testament (13 Occurrences)

Exodus (2 Occurrences)

Adam (29 Occurrences)

Israel (27466 Occurrences)

Religion (23 Occurrences)

Sustains
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