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Lexicon :: Strong's G1625 - ektrephō

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ἐκτρέφω
Transliteration
ektrephō (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-tref'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἐκτρέφω ektréphō, ek-tref'-o; from G1537 and G5142; to rear up to maturity, i.e. (genitive case) to cherish or train:—bring up, nourish.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G1625 in the following manner: nourish (1x), bring up (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G1625 in the following manner: nourish (1x), bring up (1x).

  1. to nourish up to maturity, to nourish

  2. to nurture, bring up

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκτρέφω ektréphō, ek-tref'-o; from G1537 and G5142; to rear up to maturity, i.e. (genitive case) to cherish or train:—bring up, nourish.
STRONGS G1625:
ἐκτρέφω; from Aeschylus down;
1. to nourish up to maturity; then universally, to nourish: τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σάρκα, Ephesians 5:29.
2. to nurture, bring up: τὰ τέκνα, Ephesians 6:4.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ephesians
5:29; 6:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1625 matches the Greek ἐκτρέφω (ektrephō),
which occurs 19 times in 19 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:7 - And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms,[fn] and it was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:20 - And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:8 - But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:10 - And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - (for from my youth the fatherless[fn] grew up with me as with a father,
and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow[fn]),

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3 - when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:2 - He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24 - The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
the stronghold of the sea, saying:
“I have neither labored nor given birth,
I have neither reared young men
nor brought up young women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21 - Then you will say in your heart:
‘Who has borne me these?
I was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away,
but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
from where have these come?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The waters nourished it;
the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow
around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
to all the trees of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:12 - Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
Woe to them
when I depart from them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:10 - And the LORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:9 - Though I scattered them among the nations,
yet in far countries they shall remember me,
and with their children they shall live and return.
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