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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia · 1915

Meal

mel ('okhel):

Denotes the portion of food eaten at any one time. It is found as a compound in Ruth 2:14, "meal-time," literally, "the time of eating."

See FOOD.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, general editor (Chicago: Howard-Severance, 1915). Public domain. Text as published by biblestudytools.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation.