brōma · food

What it means

brōma (βρῶμα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “food”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one eats, and also what keeps you alive inside.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• food ×13
• foods ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• John×1
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×6
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×2

• Matthew 14:15

  When evening came, the disciples came to him, saying, “The place is deserted, and the hour has already passed; send the crowds away, so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

• Mark 7:19

  because it does not go into his heart but into the stomach, and goes out into the latrine?” —declaring clean all foods.

• Luke 3:11

  And in answer he was saying to them, “Whoever has two tunics, let him share with the one who does not have any; and whoever has food, let him do the same.”

• Luke 9:13

  But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

• John 4:34

  Jesus says to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

• Romans 14:15

  For if because of food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not by your food destroy that one for whom the Messiah died.

• Romans 14:20

  Do not, for the sake of food, tear down the work of God. All things are indeed clean, but it is evil for the person who eats with stumbling.

• 1 Corinthians 3:2

  I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able. But even now you are still unable,

• 1 Corinthians 6:13

  Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both the one and the other. But the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

• 1 Corinthians 8:8

  Now food will not bring us close to God; for neither if we eat are we better off, nor if we do not eat are we worse off.

• 1 Corinthians 8:13

  Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

• 1 Corinthians 10:3

  and all ate the same spiritual food,

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  who forbid marriage and require abstaining from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• Hebrews 9:10

  resting only on foods and drinks and various immersions, regulations for the flesh imposed until a time of reformation.

• Hebrews 13:9

  Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, by which those who walked in them were not benefited.

And 2 more times.