Encyclopedia entry
Meat
It does not appear that the word “meat” is used in any one instance in the Authorized Version of either the Old or New Testament in the sense which it now almost exclusively bears of animal food. The latter is denoted uniformly by “flesh.” The word “meat,” when our English version was made, meant food in general; or if any particular kind was designated, it referred to meal, flour or grain. The only real and inconvenient ambiguity caused by the change which has taken place in the meaning of the word is in the case of the “meat offering.” [Meat Offering OFFERING]
In the Bible
349
Verses where Meat is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 21:23
Ornan said to David, “Take it! May my lord the king do whatever seems good to him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”
- 1 Chronicles 23:29
as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
- 1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
- 1 Corinthians 8:8
But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
- 1 Corinthians 8:10
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
+343 more verses naming Meat.
Scripture on Meat
175
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- Genesis 27Ezekiel 46Daniel 1Leviticus 6Numbers 11Psalms 78Leviticus 14Leviticus 23Numbers 15Deuteronomy 121 Samuel 20Ezekiel 45Romans 14Exodus 12Exodus 16Exodus 29Leviticus 11Judges 61 Samuel 21 Samuel 142 Samuel 13Ezekiel 11Ezekiel 34Joel 1Luke 7Luke 12John 4Acts 271 Corinthians 8Genesis 1Genesis 9Leviticus 8Leviticus 9Leviticus 22Leviticus 25Numbers 4Numbers 6Numbers 18Deuteronomy 2Joshua 22Judges 131 Kings 192 Kings 16Nehemiah 13Job 20Psalms 104Proverbs 23Proverbs 30Isaiah 44Isaiah 65Jeremiah 7Lamentations 1Ezekiel 4Ezekiel 24Daniel 4Matthew 25Luke 14Luke 24John 6Acts 151 Corinthians 10Hebrews 5Genesis 24Genesis 45Exodus 21Exodus 22Exodus 27Exodus 30Exodus 38Exodus 40Leviticus 5Leviticus 10Numbers 8Deuteronomy 14Deuteronomy 16Deuteronomy 20Deuteronomy 28Judges 1Judges 141 Samuel 252 Samuel 32 Samuel 112 Samuel 121 Kings 81 Kings 101 Kings 172 Kings 31 Chronicles 121 Chronicles 211 Chronicles 232 Chronicles 42 Chronicles 72 Chronicles 9Ezra 3Ezra 7Nehemiah 10Job 6Job 12Job 30Job 33Job 34Job 36Job 38Psalms 42Psalms 44Psalms 59Psalms 69Psalms 74Psalms 79Psalms 107Psalms 111Psalms 145Proverbs 6Proverbs 9Proverbs 31Isaiah 22Isaiah 25Isaiah 57Isaiah 62Jeremiah 11Jeremiah 16Jeremiah 17Jeremiah 19Jeremiah 33Jeremiah 34Lamentations 4Ezekiel 16Ezekiel 29Ezekiel 33Ezekiel 42Ezekiel 44Ezekiel 47Daniel 10Daniel 11Hosea 8Hosea 11Joel 2Amos 5Micah 3Habakkuk 1Habakkuk 3Haggai 2Malachi 1Malachi 3Matthew 3Matthew 6Matthew 9Matthew 10Matthew 14Matthew 15Matthew 24Matthew 26Mark 2Mark 8Mark 14Mark 16Luke 3Luke 8Luke 9Luke 11Luke 17Luke 22John 21Acts 2Acts 9Acts 16Acts 211 Corinthians 3Colossians 2Hebrews 12
Entries that reference Meat
2
Meat references
2
Voices on Meat
18
Surfaced by name match — accuracy varies by title clarity.
Sources · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
Public-domain text. Modernized only where archaic spelling impedes reading; original facts preserved. Verify against an authoritative modern reference before quoting.