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Lexicon :: Strong's G5142 - trephō

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τρέφω
Transliteration
trephō (Key)
Pronunciation
tref'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary verb (properly, threpho; but perhaps strength. from the base of τροπή (G5157) through the idea of convolution)
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Strong’s Definitions

τρέφω tréphō, tref'-o; a primary verb (properly, τρέφω tréphō; but perhaps strengthened from the base of G5157 through the idea of convolution); properly, to stiffen, i.e. fatten (by implication, to cherish (with food, etc.), pamper, rear):—bring up, feed, nourish.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G5142 in the following manner: feed (4x), nourish (3x), bring up (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G5142 in the following manner: feed (4x), nourish (3x), bring up (1x).

  1. to nourish, support

  2. feed

  3. to give suck, to fatten

  4. to bring up, nurture

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
τρέφω tréphō, tref'-o; a primary verb (properly, τρέφω tréphō; but perhaps strengthened from the base of G5157 through the idea of convolution); properly, to stiffen, i.e. fatten (by implication, to cherish (with food, etc.), pamper, rear):—bring up, feed, nourish.
STRONGS G5142:
τρέφω; 1 aorist ἔθρεψα; passive, present τρέφομαι; perfect participle τεθραμμένος; from Homer down; to nourish, support; to feed: τινα, Matthew 6:26; Matthew 25:37; Luke 12:24; Acts 12:20; Revelation 12:6, 14; to give suck, Luke 23:29 L T Tr WH; to fatten, James 5:5 (here A. V. nourish). to bring up, nurture, Luke 4:16 (here T WH marginal reading ἀνατρέφω) (1 Macc. 3:33 1 Macc. 11:39, and often in secular authors). (Compare: ἀνατρέφω, ἐκτρέφω, ἐντρέφω.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
6:26; 25:37
Luke
4:16; 12:24; 23:29
Acts
12:20
James
5:5
Revelation
12:6; 12:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5142 matches the Greek τρέφω (trephō),
which occurs 13 times in 13 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19 - And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by [fn]pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:15 - And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraam and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5 - all the days of his separation:—a razor shall not come upon his head, until the days be fulfilled which he vowed to the Lord: he shall be holy, cherishing the [fn]long hair of the head,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 - Thou hast forsaken God that begot thee, and forgotten God who feeds thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Has it not been told to thee my lord, what I did when Jezabel slew the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - And he gave him the copy of the writing that was published in Susa concerning their destruction, to shew to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and intreat the king, and to beg him for the people, remembering, said he, the days of thy low estate, how thou wert nursed by my hand: because Aman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21 - If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:21 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 - Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? where are the counsellors, where is he that numbers them that are growing up,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - (LXX 26:21) Also her hired soldiers in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of their retribution.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:5 - And the king appointed them a daily portion from the king's table, and from the wine which he drank; and gave orders to nourish them three years, and that afterwards they should stand before the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:12 - its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was meat for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed of it.
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