Meat
(Heb. minhah), originally a gift of any kind. This Hebrew word
came latterly to denote an "unbloody" sacrifice, as
opposed to a
"bloody" sacrifice. A "drink-offering" generally
accompanied it.
The law regarding it is given in Lev. 2, and 6:14-23.
It was a
recognition of the sovereignty of God and of his
bounty in
giving all earthly blessin...
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Not in our sense, "flesh." Thus of the three divisions of
offerings "the burnt, the meat, and the peace offering," the
meat offering is a "present or oblation" (minchah from a
root "to send or offer"), consisting only of flour, grain,
and oil, flesh never being in it as in the other two. In
Psalm 111:5, "He hath given meat (tereph) unto them t...
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Then said he unto me, The north chambers [and] the south
chambers, which [are] before the separate place, they [be]
holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD
shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most
holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and
the trespass offering; for the place [is] ho...
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No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be
made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey,
in any offering of the LORD made by fire....
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And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it....
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That we have built us an altar to turn from following the
LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering,
or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself
require [it];...
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And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat
offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof,
thou shalt offer [it], a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD....
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Only the trees which thou knowest that they [be] not trees for
meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt
build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
until it be subdued....
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met (broma, brosis): In the King James Version used for food
in general, e.g. "I had my meat of herbs" (2 Esdras 12:51);
"his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat," the
Revised Version (British and American) "food" (Jn 4:8). The
English word signified whatever is eaten, whether of flesh or
other food....
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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 ...
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