בִּרְיָהbiryâh

food (2 Samuel 13:5; 2 Samuel 13:7; 2 Samuel 13:10; Ezekiel 34:20)

Pronunciation: beer-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1279

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 13:5 “Well,” Jonadab said, “I’ll tell you what to do. Go back to bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, ask him to let Tamar come and prepare some food for you. Tell him you’ll feel better if she prepares it as you watch and feeds you with her own hands.”
  • 2 Samuel 13:7 So David agreed and sent Tamar to Amnon’s house to prepare some food for him.
  • 2 Samuel 13:10 Then he said to Tamar, “Now bring the food into my bedroom and feed it to me here.” So Tamar took his favorite dish to him.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).