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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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MEAT. This word is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] for food in general, as it is in Scotland still. Thus 2Es 12:51 ‘I had my meat of the herbs’; cf. Hall, Works i. 806, ‘There was never any meat, except the forbidden fruit, so deare bought as this broth of Jacob.’

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Meat'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​m/meat.html. 1909.
 
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