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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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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:7 - But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:20 - The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh’s own children.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:8 - But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side and will obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the royal princes, seventy of them, were with the leading men of the city, who were rearing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:10 - The young men who had grown up with him replied, “The people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3 - They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:2 - He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24 - The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21 - Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:12 - Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:10 - But the LORD said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:9 - Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return.
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