161 occurrences in 11 translations

'Ate' in the Bible

So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.”

EveSin, Causes OfSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InThe Ancient SerpentWhat Do You Do?Eating Forbidden FoodAdam and eveAdam and eve disobey god

Then Abraham took curds and milk, and the calf that he had prepared, and set them before the men. He served them as they ate under the tree.

ButterMilkDairyCompanionshipPeople EatingRich Food

But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.

Cooking, MethodsImportunity, Towards PeopleProperty, HousesYeastThose Who Provided A Meal

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”

Leisure, And PastimesEating And DrinkingPeople Sending People

Now Isaac loved [and favored] Esau, because he enjoyed eating his game, but Rebekah loved [and favored] Jacob.

Fathers, Examples OfPrejudiceTastePartialityThose Who LovedMan's FavouriteDeergames

Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.

Bread, As FoodVegetablesThose Who Provided A Meallent

Then he said, “Serve me, and let me eat some of my son’s game so that I can bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.

WineProviding WinePeople Blessing

Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”

TremblingIndividuals TremblingWho Is This?People Blessing

Meanwhile, these past 20 years that I've been with you, your sheep and goats never had miscarriages, I never once ate any of the rams from your flock,

PregnancyRams20 To 30 YearsMiscarrying Animals

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.

Stones As Monuments

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Feasting On Special OccasionsFeastingInvitationsEating Before GodStaying Temporarily

Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”

Animals Eating PeopleWild Animals DevouringAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleUnfulfilled Word

He left all that he owned under Joseph’s authority; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.

FidelityServants, GoodTrustworthinessBusiness EthicsBeauty, In MenSeeking FoodAuthority Delegated To PeopleHandsome Men

And in the uppermost basket there were all manner of victuals for Pharaoh that the baker makes, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.

Birds EatingAnimals EatingTop Of Things

The sickly, thin cows ate the healthy, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Fat AnimalsAnimals EatingThin Bodies

and ate up the seven plump, fruit-filled ears. Then Pharaoh woke up a second time, and it had been a very vivid dream!

Seven ThingsThin Bodies

And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

AbominationsAbominations, PracticesPeople PartingNo DealingsHating Peoples

Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land.

Giving To OthersDividing Food

They covered the surface of the entire land so that it was dark. They ate all the vegetation of the land and the fruit from the trees that the hail left. Nothing green was left on the trees or on the vegetation in all the land of Egypt.

BlackCovering The EarthDarkness During DaytimeGreenRemaining FoodAnimals EatingHarming Trees

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger!”

IngratitudeMeatSelf PityCynicismDying In The WildernessDesire For DeathPlenty In EgyptNo FoodGod Might Kill His PeoplePots For Cooking And EatingDying In The Desert WeedComplaininghungerpot

The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Forty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 Years

And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.

Fasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

When anyone eats fat from the domestic animal from which he presented an offering made by fire for Yahweh, then that person who ate shall be cut off from his people.

Forbidden FoodThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

"If anyone from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you eats any form of blood, I'll oppose that person who ate the blood and eliminate him from his people,

Face Of GodGod OpposingForeigners Included In The LawForbidden FoodThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelStrangers in israel

We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

CucumbersFruitFishesVegetablesLooking BackwardPeople RememberingFree Of ChargeComplainingFish

The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.

BowingBowing To False GodsFood Offered To Idols

when I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, and I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, --

Fasting, Reasons ForWaterMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinai

And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

MediatorProstrationWaterFasting, Accompanied ByMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;

Fruitfulness, NaturalFoodFlintHigh PlacesOilHoneyProvision From RocksProvision Of Oil

Who ate the fat of their sacrificesand drank the wine of their drink offerings?Let them rise up and help you;let it be a shelter for you.

Food For Other godsNo Help In Other Gods

The day after Passover they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

Cooking, Types Of Food

And the day after they ate from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. Since there was no more manna for the Israelites, they ate from the crops of the land of Canaan that year.

MannaCessationNo FoodThings Stopping

So they went out to the countryside and harvested grapes from their vineyards. They trampled the grapes and held a celebration. Then they went to the house of their god, and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.

GluttonyGrapesMerrinessRevelryTreading GrapesUngodly Cursing

He scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. When he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had scooped the honey from the lion’s carcass.

Food DecayingThose Who Did Not Tell

His father-in-law, the girl’s father, detained him, and he stayed with him for three days. They ate, drank, and spent the nights there.

Three DaysFathers In Laws

So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and enjoy yourself.”

Enjoyment, Material ThingsSittingPeople Who Delayed

He got up early in the morning of the fifth day to leave, but the girl’s father said to him, “Please keep up your strength.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

The Fifth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 5

So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. Then they washed their feet and ate and drank.

Foot washingFeeding AnimalsClean Feet

At mealtime Boaz told her, “Come over here and have some bread and dip it in the vinegar sauce.” So she sat beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

Bread, As FoodGrainMealsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSittingVinegarWineRemaining Food

After Boaz ate, drank, and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the pile of barley. Then she went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

Alcohol ConsumptionLying Down To RestEating And Drinking

Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh. Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s tabernacle.

DoorpostsHigh Priest, In OtPeople Sitting DownThe Temple At Shilohfinishing

“May your servant find favor with you,” she replied. Then Hannah went on her way; she ate and no longer looked despondent.

People Eating

The cook picked up the thigh and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Notice that the reserved piece is set before you. Eat it because it was saved for you for this solemn event at the time I said, ‘I’ve invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: "Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!" So no one in the army ate anything.

Curses, HumanFasting, Nature OfPromises, HumanRashnessAdjurationCursing The UngodlyMan AvengingVowing To FastPeople Bound By Oaths

When the troops entered the forest, they saw the flow of honey, but none of them ate any of it because they feared the oath.

However, Jonathan had not heard his father make the troops swear the oath. He reached out with the end of the staff he was carrying and dipped it into the honeycomb. When he ate the honey, he had renewed energy.

Revival, PersonalStaffHoneyRodsGood EyesPeople Refreshed

they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.

PlunderingSheepSpoils Of WarForbidden FoodGod's People Sinning

And Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no meat the second day of the new moon; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

Fasting, Reasons ForSorrowSympathyTablesAnger Of Man, RighteousAnger Of Man, CauseMourning In RegretFasting In MourningNamed People Angry With Others

She served it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Afterward, they got up and left that night.

People Eating

And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink,

Man Providing WaterThose Who Provided A Meal

Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

RaisinsCakesDried FruitThree Days And Nightsrevival

Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do all my lord the king commands.”So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table just like one of the king’s sons.

TablesLike Good People

However, Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem because he always ate at the king’s table. His feet had been injured.

Jerusalem, History Of

And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.

AlcoholDrunkenness, Examples OfPeople Making Drunk

but the poor man had nothing at all, but one little ewe lamb which he had bought, and was nourishing; and it grew up with him, and together with his children: it ate of his morsel, and drank of his own cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

Cups, Literal UseNoting What Animals EatPossessing SheepPets

And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he ate no bread with them.

Then David got up from the ground. He washed, anointed himself, changed his clothes, went to the Lord’s house, and worshiped. Then he went home and requested something to eat. So they served him food, and he ate.

AblutionOintmentWorship, Acceptable AttitudesPeople EatingAnointing OneselfClean FacesClean Clothes

His servants asked him, “What did you just do? While the baby was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate food.”

People EatingWhat Do You Do?Death Of A Child

For all my father’s household was nothing but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right do I have yet that I should complain anymore to the king?”

Possibility Of Deathgrandfathers

Judah and Israel became as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They enjoyed abundance, and ate, drank, and rejoiced regularly.

HappinessSandTribes Of IsraelMany In IsraelSand And GravelEating Drinking And Rejoicing

The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.

GovernorsTables

and the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place that He said to you, “Do not eat bread and do not drink water”— your corpse will never reach the grave of your fathers.’”

TombsInadequate BurialsBurial Of Unnamed PeopleLack Of A Proper Burial

It happened after he ate food and drank water that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

Preparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

So she proceeded to do according to the word of Elijah. Then the woman, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.

Sacrificial GivingAction For A Long Time

Then he looked, and there at his head was a loaf of bread baked over hot stones, and a jug of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

BakingHeatCoal, Uses OfDivine SuppliesWater ContainersBaking Breadcooking

So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Fasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

So he turned back from following him, took the team of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s wooden yoke and plow, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he left, followed Elijah, and served him.

equipping, physicalYokesFeeding GroupsFirewoodPeople Following PeopleFarmingbridges

And Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word that Naboth the Jizreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and ate no bread.

Resentment, Against GodSadnessTemperUnhappinessAnger, Sinful ExamplesLying Down To RestAngry People

They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, “There’s death in the pot, man of God!” And they were unable to eat it.

Possibility Of DeathMan Of GodDeath Of A Family MemberWeedcookingpot

So he gave it to them, and as the Lord had promised, they ate and had some left over.

And he prepared a great repast for them, and they ate and drank; and he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

Dinner

So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.”

People Hiding PeopleThe Death Of BabiesMothers And SonsKidsHaving A Babycookingbabystories

When the lepers arrived at the outskirts of the encampment, they entered one tent and ate and drank. Then they carried off from there some silver, gold, and clothes, and went out and hid them. After this, they returned, entered another tent, raided it, and went and hid all of that, too!

GoldDivine SuppliesHidden Things

Then he went in, ate and drank, and said, “Take care of this cursed woman and bury her, since she’s a king’s daughter.”

jezebel

The priests of the high places, however, did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; instead, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

The Altar Of The Lord

And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

Distinctive Clothing

They ate and drank with great joy in the Lord’s presence that day.Then, for a second time, they made David’s son Solomon king; they anointed him as the Lord’s ruler, and Zadok as the priest.

Anointing, Performed OnDoing Things TwiceEating Before GodAnointing KingsAnointing Priests

Even though a large crowd of people from as far away as Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not completed consecrating themselves, they still ate the Passover in a manner not proscribed by the Law, because Hezekiah had prayed like this for them: "May the good LORD extend a pardon on behalf of

God, Goodness Of

Then Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the Lord. They ate at the appointed festival for seven days, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

Fellowship Offeringencouragement, examples of

The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land in order to worship Yahweh, the God of Israel.

ExclusivenessSeparationHeathenNations DescribedProselytesSeparation From Evil PeopleThose who returned from exileAdoption Should Lead To Holiness

Ezra arose in front of the Temple of God to visit the apartment of Eliashib's son Jehohanan. While there, he neither ate nor drank because he was in mourning over the sins of those who had returned from exile.

Abstinence as a disciplineFasting, Nature OfSorrowWaterFasting In Mourning

Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah—from the twentieth year until his thirty-second year, 12 years—I and my associates never ate from the food allotted to the governor.

GovernorsArtaxerxes The KingTen To Fourteen Years

They captured fortified cities and fertile landand took possession of well-supplied houses,cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards,olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance.They ate, were filled,became prosperous, and delighted in Your great goodness.

FortificationsAbundance, MaterialDelighting, Right Kinds OfOlivesVineyardWellsTaking PossessionCapturing Cities

Then all his brothers and sisters and all those who knew him before arrived. They ate food with him in his house, mourned for him, and consoled him for all the trouble that the LORD had brought and placed on him. Some gave him gold bullion and some brought gold earrings.

God, Goodness OfGoldOrnamentsRingsSistersSuffering, Encouragements InVisitingComfort, Of FriendsPresentsJewelleryLarge Denominations

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,Who eat up My people as though they ate breadAnd have not called upon God?

Eating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodPrayer, Practicalities OfCharacter Of WickedEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorant

People ate the bread of angels.He sent them an abundant supply of food.

DelicaciesAngelsevangelising

They ate and were completely satisfied,for He gave them what they craved.

Plenty In The Wilderness

And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

Animals Eating

Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

Sickness

Bible Theasaurus

Consume (170 instances)
Corrode (1 instance)
Deplete (1 instance)
Exhaust (12 instances)

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אטר 
'Ater 
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