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βρῶμα

food

G1033 Strong's Greek
brōma Transliteration
/bro'-mah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 17 appearances

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About this entry

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βρωμα — transliterated brōma — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “food.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “meat” in the King James Version, “food” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 15 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in 1 Corinthians. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 14:15. See the sense tree, 15-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
meat
Modern gloss
food
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1033 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

15
distinct verses
The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
8 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 14:15
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 14:15.
Hebrews 13:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Hebrews 13:9.
#697
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 697 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 5 · 33%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 8 · 53%
  • General Epistles 2 · 13%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 8 verses · 53%
  • Gospels 5 verses · 33%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 13%
  • Hebrews 2 verses · 13%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 7%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Meat 10×, Meats 6×
  • American Standard Version: Meat 6×, Food 5×, Meats 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Food 9×, Foods 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Food 12×, Foods 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1033 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Meat” 10×
  • “Meats” 6×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1033 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Meat” 6×
  • “Food” 5×
  • “Meats” 5×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1033 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Food” 9×
  • “Foods” 2×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1033 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Food” 12×
  • “Foods” 4×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. that which is eaten, food

Word origin

Derived from βιβρωσκω (bibrṓskō) (G977) — to eat.

Part of speech: Noun Neuter TDNT: 11:42,1

From the base of G977 ; food (literally or figuratively) especially (ceremonial) articles allowed or forbiden by the Jewish law : - meat victuals.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 7 distinct written forms G1033 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
βρώματα brṓmata Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 14:15 5
βρῶμα brō̂ma Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Romans 14:15 5
βρώμασιν brṓmasin Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter 1 Corinthians 6:13 3
βρωμάτων brōmátōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 1 Timothy 4:3 1
βρώματί brṓmatí Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter Romans 14:15 1
βρώματος brṓmatos Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Romans 14:20 1
βρῶμά brō̂má Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter John 4:34 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1033, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Shares the same root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word βρωμα appears 51 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 48 verses in 17 books.

51
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
48
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
17 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1033) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1033) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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