Word

βρῶσις

brōsis · G1035 · Greek · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

to eat, eating

To consume solid food

Examples
Romans 14:17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 8:4 Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
a meal, a banquet, a feast

A meal whether simple or elaborate

Examples
Hebrews 12:16 that there be no sexually immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
food

Any kind of food or nourishment

Examples
John 4:32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
John 6:27 “Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
John 6:55 “For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.
solid food, meat, flesh

Any type of solid food, particularly meat

Examples
Romans 14:17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
rusting, tarnishing, corrosion

The process of producing rust or tarnish by oxidation

Examples
Matthew 6:19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Matthew 6:20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εἰδωλόθυτονsacrificial meat 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

εἷςone 1
ἀληθήςtrue, truthful 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 3 groups

δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
μένωto remain, to stay, to abide 1
ἀπόλλυμιto destroy, to perish, to lose 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀφανίζωto destroy 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

ἔχωto have 1
φάγωto eat 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

σάρξflesh, body, physical body 1
βασιλείαkingdom, reign 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

περίconcerning, about, for 2
ἀντίfor, instead of 2
εἰςto 1
ἐνin 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

τροφή trophḗ · G5160 · food: The target term βρῶσις spans several related senses, including both the act of eating and food itself, while τροφή denotes food or nourishment specifically. The two converge in the sense of “food, that which is eaten,” with βρῶσις additionally covering the act of eating and other extended senses such as corrosion.

In the other Testament 4 words

אָכַל ʼâkal · H398 · to eat, to make (someone) eat, to give (someone) to eat: אָכַל (ʼâkal, H398) is the Hebrew verbal root 'to eat/consume/devour' that underlies the semantic domain; βρῶσις (brōsis, G1035) βρῶσις is specifically the Greek abstract nominal form denoting the act or process of eating (and by extension, food as the object eaten), thus representing the nominalized concept derived from the action אָכַל (ʼâkal, H398) denotes.
מַאֲכָל maʼăkâl · H3978 · food: Hebrew מַאֲכָל denotes concrete food/edible items, while Greek βρῶσις encompasses both the abstract act of eating and concrete food as its object; they align as cross-linguistic equivalents when βρῶσις is used in its concrete 'food' sense rather than its abstract 'eating/consumption' sense.
אֹכֶל ʼôkel · H400 · food, provisions: אֹכֶל (ʼôkel, H400) is the Hebrew equivalent denoting both the act of eating and food as concrete substance, directly parallel to βρῶσις (brōsis, G1035)'s dual abstract-eating/concrete-food semantics; the Septuagint consistently renders אֹכֶל (ʼôkel, H400) with βρῶσις in contexts where Greek requires the same eating/food conceptual range.
אׇכְלָה ʼoklâh · H402 · food, fuel: Hebrew אׇכְלָה (ʼoklâh, H402) and Greek βρῶσις (brōsis, G1035) both denote the abstract act of eating and its concrete product (food/meat), functioning as direct cross-linguistic equivalents across the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint with overlapping semantic range in both literal and figurative usage.

Semantic domains 5 entries

Rusting, tarnishing, corrosion2.62: Used of physical decay of stored treasure, as of the rust that destroys treasures stored up on earth in Matthew 6:19-20.
A meal, a banquet, a feast23.22: Used of the act of eating food, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the food-related entries below.
To eat, eating23.3: Used of the ongoing labor of eating perishable food, as of working not for the food that perishes but for the food that endures to eternal life in John 6:27.
Food5.1: Used generally of nourishment, as of Jesus telling the disciples He has food to eat that they do not know about in John 4:32.
Solid food, meat, flesh5.7: Used specifically of substantial food, as of the true food that Jesus' flesh is said to be in John 6:55.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βιβρώσκω bibrṓskō · G977 · to eat, eating · 1×βρῶμα brōma · G1033 · food, solid food, meat · 17×βρῶσιςbrōsis · G1035βρώσιμος brṓsimos · G1034 · eatable · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βρώσεως, ἡ (βρόω, βιβρώσκω); 1. the act of eating (Tertullianesus): βρῶσις καί πόσις, Rom…

βρώσεως, ἡ (βρόω, βιβρώσκω);
1. the act of eating (Tertullianesus): βρῶσις καί πόσις, Rom 14:17 (on which see βασιλεία, 3); with the genitive of the object 1 Cor 8:4 (Plato, de rep. 10, p. 619 c. παίδων αὐτοῦ); in a wider sense, corrosion: Mt 6:19f.
2. as almost everywhere in Greek writings that which is eaten, food, aliment: Heb 12:16; εἰς βρῶσιν for food, 2 Cor 9:10 (Wis. 4:5); βρῶσις καί (so WH text Tr marginal reading; others ἤ) πόσις, Col 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, Jn 4:32, or nourishes and supports it unto life eternal, Jn 6:27, Jn 6:55.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Metals2 occurrences Food7 occurrences Eat, Drink3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0