brōsis · food, eating

What it means

brōsis (βρῶσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “food, eating”.

Eating; food, nourishment. In Matthew 6:19-20, what eats things away: moth or rust.

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. The act of eating and drinking, on which there were rules of clean food.
2. What one eats to live; also the food that gives eternal life.
3. What eats away and ruins stored things.

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

How it is translated

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

• food ×5
• eating ×3
• woodworm ×2
• meal ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• John×4
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Colossians×1
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 6:19

  “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and woodworm destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal;

• Matthew 6:20

  but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworm destroys, and where thieves do not dig through or steal;

• John 4:32

  But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know.”

• John 6:27

  Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that remains to 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.

• 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

  So, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

• 2 Corinthians 9:10

  Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness;

• Colossians 2:16

  So let no one judge you in eating or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,

• Hebrews 12:16

  that no one be sexually immoral or profane like Esau, who in exchange for a single meal sold his own birthright.

And 1 more times.