מָזוֹן
mâzôwn · H4202 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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food, provisions
Supplies of food and drink
ExamplesGenesis 45:23 And to his father he sent the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and sustenance for his father on the journey.
2 Chronicles 11:23 He acted wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the territories of Judah and Benjamin to all the fortified cities, and he gave them plenty of provisions. And he sought many wives for them.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 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 2 words
- לֶחֶם lechem · H3899 · bread, food, bread of the Presence
- Primary Hebrew word for bread but often extended to mean food in general; can function as a near-synonym for provisions/victuals in contexts where מָזוֹן appears.
- צֵידָה tsêydâh · H6720 · provisions
- Hebrew term specifically for provisions/victuals, especially for a journey; semantically very close to מָזוֹן as prepared food or supplies.
In the other Testament 3 words
- βρῶμα brōma · G1033 · food, solid food, meat
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for food/meat; used throughout LXX and NT for edible provisions, directly parallel to Hebrew מָזוֹן in sense.
- βρῶσις brōsis · G1035 · to eat, eating, a meal
- Greek term for food/provisions, closely related to βρῶμα; denotes both the act of eating and the food itself, overlapping semantically with מָזוֹן as sustenance.
- τροφή trophḗ · G5160 · food
- Greek word for nourishment/sustenance; commonly used for provisions and victuals, a natural translation equivalent for מָזוֹן.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Food001003001003
- מָזוֹן denotes food or provisions, as in 2 Chronicles 11:23's note that Rehoboam "provided food in abundance" for his sons stationed in the fortified cities.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4202. mazon מָזוֺן noun masculine food, sustenance (so Talmud, Biblical Aramaic, Syriac)…
מָזוֺן noun masculine food, sustenance (so Talmud, Biblical Aramaic, Syriac) — וּמָזוֺן וָלֶחֶם בָּר Gen 45:23 (Di '׳מ rather an Aramaic word; perhaps later gloss for original צֵדָה Gen 45:21; Gen 42:25'); לָרֹב הַמָּזוֺן2Ch 11:23.
זוֺנָה see זנה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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