Deuteronomy 8:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

manna. See note on Exodus 16:31.

man. Hebrew. 'adam. This verse quoted by Christ. Matthew 4:4.Luke 4:4.

by. Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6). "by [eating] bread".

bread. food, by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6,

by every. Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6). "by [keeping] every word": or by obeying.

mouth. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

Deuteronomy 8:3

3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.