Word

τροφή

trophḗ · G5160 · Greek · 16 occurrences

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Meanings

food

Any kind of food or nourishment

Examples
Matthew 3:4 Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 6:25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 10:10 or a bag for your journey, or even two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for the worker is deserving of his support.

How it’s used In 5 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 2 groups

στερεόςsolid 2
ἐφήμεροςdaily 1

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 7 groups

μεταλαμβάνωto receive a share in 3
δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
κορέννυμιto be content 1
λαμβάνωto receive, to take 1
λείπωto not have 1
προσλαμβάνωto receive, to take aside 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 3 groups

ἀκρίςgrasshopper 1
μέλιhoney 1
τέλειοςperfect, mature 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

χρείαneed 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.

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.

Near synonyms 2 words

βρῶμα brōma · G1033 · food, solid food, meat: τροφή and βρῶμα both denote food or nourishment. βρῶμα additionally carries a more specific sense of solid food or meat, while τροφή is the broader term for sustenance generally; both converge on the shared core sense of food.
βρῶσις brōsis · G1035 · to eat, eating, a meal: Both terms refer to food and eating. βρῶσις emphasizes the act or process of eating and consumption (extending metaphorically to corrosion), while τροφή emphasizes the nourishing quality and sustenance provided by food. In many contexts they are functionally interchangeable as food terms.

In the other Testament 1 word

לֶחֶם lechem · H3899 · bread, food, bread of the Presence: לֶחֶם (lechem, H3899) denotes physical food/bread as sustenance, directly equivalent to τροφή (trophḗ, G5160)'s literal sense of nourishment/rations, though τροφή (trophḗ, G5160) extends more readily to figurative/spiritual nourishment in NT usage while לֶחֶם (lechem, H3899) remains primarily concrete.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Food5.1: Matthew 6:25 — “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?”

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×τροφήtrophḗ · G5160ἀνατρέφω 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×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τροφῆς, ἡ (τρέφω, 2 perfect τέτροφα), food, nourishment: Mt 3:4; Mt 6:25; Mt 10:10; Mt…

τροφῆς, ἡ (τρέφω, 2 perfect τέτροφα), food, nourishment: Mt 3:4; Mt 6:25; Mt 10:10; Mt 24:45; Lk 12:23; Jn 4:8; Acts 2:46; Acts 9:19; Acts 14:17; Acts 27:33f, 36, 38; Jas 2:15; of the food of the mind, i. e. the substance of instruction, Heb 5:12, Heb 5:14. (Tragg., Xenophon, Plato, and following; the Sept. for לֶחֶם, אֹכֶל, מָזון, etc.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Food16 occurrences

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