Word

ἐκτρέφω

ektréphō · G1625 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to provide food for, to give food to someone to eat

To provide food for, with the implication of a considerable period of time and the food being adequate nourishment

Examples
Ephesians 5:29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
to raise, to rear, to bring up

To raise a child to maturity by providing for physical and psychological needs

Examples
Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐνin+ νουθεσίαinstruction, warning 1
ἐνin+ παιδείαdiscipline, training 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

To provide food for, to give food to someone to eat23.6: Used in Ephesians 5:29, where Paul observes that no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
To raise, to rear, to bring up35.51: Used in Ephesians 6:4, where fathers are told not to provoke their children to anger, but to bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

τρέφω tréphō · G5142 · to provide food for, to give food to someone to eat, to take care of · 9×τροφή trophḗ · G5160 · food · 16×ἀνατρέφω anatréphō · G397 · to raise, to rear, to bring up · 3×Τρόφιμος Tróphimos · G5161 · nutritive; Trophimus, a Christian · 3×ἐκτρέφωektréphō · G1625διατροφή diatrophḗ · G1305 · food · 1×ἐντρέφω entréphō · G1789 · to train, to teach · 1×θρέμμα thrémma · G2353 · livestock, cattle · 1×σύντροφος sýntrophos · G4939 · foster brother or foster sister, close friend, intimate friend · 1×τροφός trophós · G5162 · nursemaid, nurse (in the British, not American, sense) · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon from Aeschylus down; 1. to nourish up to maturity; then universally, to nourish: τήν…

from Aeschylus down;
1. to nourish up to maturity; then universally, to nourish: τήν ἑαυτοῦ σάρκα, Eph 5:29.
2. to nurture, bring up: τά τέκνα, Eph 6:4.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Eat, Drink1 occurrence Rear, Bring Up1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0