Eat
EAT, verb transitive preterit tense ate; participle passive eat or eaten. [Latin edo, esse, esum.]
1. To bite or chew and swallow, as food.
They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen. [[Daniel 4#25|Daniel 4:25]].
2. To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing. We say a cancer eats the flesh.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them. [[Ecclesiastes 5#11|Ecclesiastes 5:11]].
4. To enjoy.
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. [[Isaiah 1#19|Isaiah 1:19]].
5. To consume; to oppress.
Who eat up my people as they eat bread. [[Psalms 14#4|Psalms 14:4]].
6. To feast.
Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. [[Isaiah 22#13|Isaiah 22:13]].
In scripture, to eat the flesh of Christ, is to believe on him and be nourished by faith.
To eat one's words, is to swallow back; to take back what has been uttered; to retract.
EAT, verb intransitive To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam.
Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners. [[Matthew 9#11|Matthew 9:11]].
1. To take food; to be maintained in food.
To eat or to eat in or into, is to make way by corrosion; to gnaw, to enter by gradually wearing or separating the parts of a substance. A cancer eats into the flesh.
Their word will eat as doth a canker. [[2 Timothy 2#17|2 Timothy 2:17]].
To eat out, to consume.
Their word will eat out the vitals of religion, corrupt and destroy it.