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Sitifan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Eat of

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  1. Genesis 2:17
    but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
  2. Genesis 3:1
    [ The Temptation and Fall of Man ] Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
  3. Genesis 3:5
    For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”


    4. What does "eat of" mean? Is there any difference in meaning between "eat of" and "eat"?
  

Top answer

Its an archaic way of speaking. Eat it, eat from it, eat part of it.

— BarbaraPA

  • Its an archaic way of speaking.
  • Eat it, eat from it, eat part of it.
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Its an archaic way of speaking. Eat it, eat from it, eat part of it.
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sitifanIs there any difference in meaning between "eat of" and "eat"?
There is more difference in style than in meaning, although the meaning is slightly different. The Bible is written in very old English, including very archaic "partitive" structures using "of".

eat of it ~ eat some/any of it ~ eat some/any part of it.

It's not exactly the s
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