Word

τρέφω

tréphō · G5142 · Greek · 9 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
Matthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?
Matthew 25:37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?
Luke 12:24 “Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!
to take care of

To take care of, with special reference to supplying necessary nourishment

Examples
James 5:5 You have lived for pleasure on the earth and lived luxuriously; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Revelation 12:6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for 1,260 days.
Revelation 12:14 But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time, times, and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent.
to raise, to rear, to bring up

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

Examples
Luke 4:16 And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

How it’s used In 7 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

8 occurrences in 8 groups

θεόςGod 1
ὅςwho, which, that 1
πατήρfather 1
χώραcountry, region, land 1
Not stated: we 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 3
καρδίαheart 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐνin+ ἡμέραday 1
ἀπόfrom+ πρόσωπονface 1
ἀπόfrom+ βασιλικόςroyal 1

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐκεῖthere 2
ὅπουwhere, wherever, in which 1
οὐnot 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

μαστόςbreast 1
τόποςplace 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐμβλέπωto look straight at 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

διάthrough 2

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 3 entries

To provide food for, to give food to someone to eat23.6: Matthew 6:26 — ““Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?”
To take care of35.45: Luke 4:16 — “And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.”
To raise, to rear, to bring up35.51: James 5:5 — “You have lived for pleasure on the earth and lived luxuriously; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.”

Word family 12 words

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

τρέφωtréphō · G5142τροφή trophḗ · G5160 · food · 16×ἀνατρέφω anatréphō · G397 · to raise, to rear, to bring up · 3×Τρόφιμος Tróphimos · G5161 · nutritive; Trophimus, a Christian · 3×ἐκτρέφω ektréphō · G1625 · to provide food for, to give food to someone to eat, to raise · 2×διατροφή 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×

Also from the root τρέφω

τεκνοτροφέω teknotrophéō · G5044 · to raise, to rear, to bring up · 1×Διοτρεφής Diotrephḗs · G1361 · Jove-nourished; Diotrephes, an opponent of Christianity · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist ἔθρεψα; passive, present τρέφομαι; perfect participle τεθραμμένος; from Homer…

1 aorist ἔθρεψα; passive, present τρέφομαι; perfect participle τεθραμμένος; from Homer down; to nourish, support; to feed: τινα, Mt 6:26; Mt 25:37; Lk 12:24; Acts 12:20; Rev 12:6, Rev 12:14; to give suck, Lk 23:29 L T Tr WH; to fatten, Jas 5:5 (here A. V. nourish). to bring up, nurture, Lk 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-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Eat, Drink6 occurrences Care For, Take Care Of3 occurrences 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