βρῶμα
food
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1033 appears in the Book of 1 Timothy — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Timothy
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
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
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.
- #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
- 1 Corinthians 5 verses 33%
- Luke 2 verses 13%
- Romans 2 verses 13%
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- that which is eaten, food
Word origin
Derived from βιβρωσκω (bibrṓskō) (G977) — to eat.
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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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
- Genesis 6:21 βρῶμα
- Leviticus 11:34 βρῶμα
- Deuteronomy 2:6 βρῶμα
- 2 Samuel 13:5 βρῶμα
- 1 Kings 10:5 βρῶμα
- 1 Chronicles 12:41 βρῶμα
- 2 Chronicles 2:9 βρῶμα
- Ezra 3:7 βρῶμα
- Job 6:5 βρῶμα
- Psalms 68:22 βρῶμα
- Proverbs 23:6 βρῶμα
- Isaiah 3:6 βρῶμα
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.
- Genesis 6:21 βρῶμα Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
- Genesis 14:11 βρῶμα They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
- Genesis 41:35 βρῶμα Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
- Genesis 41:36 βρῶμα The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."
- Genesis 41:48 βρῶμα He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.
- Genesis 42:2 βρῶμα He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
- Genesis 42:7 βρῶμα Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
- Genesis 42:10 βρῶμα They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
- Genesis 43:2 βρῶμα It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
- Genesis 43:4 βρῶμα If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,
- Genesis 43:20 βρῶμα and said, "Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
- Genesis 43:22 βρῶμα We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
- Genesis 44:1 βρῶμα He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
- Genesis 44:25 βρῶμα Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
- Leviticus 11:34 βρῶμα All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 25:6 βρῶμα The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
- Leviticus 25:37 βρῶμα You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
- Deuteronomy 2:6 βρῶμα You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.
- Deuteronomy 2:28 βρῶμα You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,
- Deuteronomy 23:20 βρῶμα to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
- 2 Samuel 13:5 βρῶμα Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.
- 2 Samuel 13:7 βρῶμα Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
- 2 Samuel 13:10 βρῶμα Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
- 1 Kings 10:5 βρῶμα and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
- 1 Kings 12:24 βρῶμα Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 12:41 βρῶμα
- 2 Chronicles 2:9 βρῶμα even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
- 2 Chronicles 9:4 βρῶμα and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
- 2 Chronicles 11:11 βρῶμα He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.
- Ezra 3:7 βρῶμα They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
- Job 6:5 βρῶμα Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
- Job 20:21 βρῶμα There was nothing left that he didn't devour, Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
- Psalms 68:22 βρῶμα The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;
- Psalms 73:14 βρῶμα For all day long have I been plagued, And punished every morning.
- Psalms 77:18 βρῶμα The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
- Psalms 78:2 βρῶμα I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
- Psalms 106:18 βρῶμα A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
- Proverbs 23:6 βρῶμα Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, And don't crave his delicacies:
- Proverbs 31:15 βρῶμα She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.
- Isaiah 3:6 βρῶμα Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, And let this ruin be under your hand."
- Isaiah 62:8 βρῶμα Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:
- Ezekiel 4:10 βρῶμα Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
- Joel 1:16 βρῶμα Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- Joel 2:23 βρῶμα "Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in Yahweh, your God; For he gives you the former rain in just measure, And he causes the rain to come down for you, The former rain and the latter rain, As before.
- Habakkuk 1:16 βρῶμα Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
- Haggai 2:12 βρῶμα 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."
- Malachi 1:7 βρῶμα You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'
- Malachi 1:12 βρῶμα "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
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.
