1 Samuel 1:7; 2 Samuel 12:17; 1 Kings 21:4; Job 33:20

So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.


17 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.


And Ahab twent into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.


20  so that his ilife loathes bread,

and his appetite jthe choicest food.