χορτάζω
chortázō · G5526 · Greek · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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to cause to eat one’s fill, to satisfy with food
To cause to eat so as to become satisfied
ExamplesMatthew 14:20 And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces: twelve full baskets.
Matthew 15:33 The disciples said to Him, “Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?”
Matthew 15:37 And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven large baskets full.
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to eat one’s fill
To eat, resulting in a state of being satisfied
ExamplesMark 6:42 And they all ate and were satisfied;
Mark 7:27 And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
Mark 8:8 And they ate and were satisfied; and they picked up seven large baskets full of what was left over of the broken pieces.
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to be satisfied, to be content with
(A figurative extension of meaning of χορτάζομαι ‘to eat one’s fill,’) To be satisfied or content with some object or state
ExamplesMatthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Luke 6:21 “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
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
Who or what does itSubject
15 occurrences in 7 groups
- Not stated: they 4
- Not stated (infinitive) 4
- Not stated: you (more than one) 3
- ὄρνεονbird 1
- πᾶςall, every, each 1
- τέκνονchild, offspring 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- οὗτοςthis 1
- ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐκfrom+ σάρξflesh, body, physical body 1
- ἐπίon+ ἐρημίαdesert 1
- ἀπόfrom+ πίπτωto fall 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὧδεhere 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- δύναμαιcan 1
- ἐπιθυμέωto long for 1
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐμπίπλημι empíplēmi · G1705 · to be satisfied, to have one’s fill, to enjoy
- Both verbs occupy the semantic space of satiety and satisfaction through eating. Though drawn from different roots, they cluster tightly around the same concrete concept of eating to fullness and being satisfied — a specific, narrow convergence rather than a broad or vague overlap.
In the other Testament 1 word
- שָׂבַע sâbaʻ · H7646 · to be satiated, to become satiated, to satisfy (someone with food)
- Hebrew שָׂבַע (sâbaʻ, H7646) denotes satiation/being filled to sufficiency across both literal and metaphorical registers; Greek χορτάζω (chortázō, G5526) carries the same semantic core of satisfaction through abundant supply, making them direct translation equivalents in LXX rendering.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- To eat one’s fill23.15
- Matthew 5:6 says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.”
- To cause to eat one’s fill, to satisfy with food23.16
- Matthew 14:20 recounts that “they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces: twelve full baskets”.
- To be satisfied, to be content with25.82
- Philippians 4:12 says, “I know how to get along with little, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἐχόρτασα; 1 aorist passive, ἐχορτασθην; future passive, χορτασθήσομαι;…
a. to feed with herbs, grass, hay, to fill or satisfy with food, to fatten; animals (so uniformly in the earlier Greek writings (cf. Lightfoot on Phm 4:12; Winer's Grammar, 23)): ὄρνεα ἐκ τῶν σαρκῶν, passive, Rev 19:21 (here A. V. were filled).
b. in later (cf. Sturz, Dial. Maced. and Alex., p. 200ff) and Biblical Greek, to fill or satisfy men (the Sept. for שָׁבַע and הִשְׂבִּיעַ; with some degree of contempt in Plato, de rep. 9, p. 586 a. κεκυφοτες εἰς γῆν καί εἰς τραπέζας βοσκονται χορταζόμενοι καί ὀχευοντες). α. properly: τινα, Mt 15:33; passive, Mt 14:20; Mt 15:37; Mk 6:42; Mk 7:27; Mk 8:8; Lk 9:17; Jn 6:26; Jas 2:16; opposed to πεινᾶν, Phm 4:12; τινα τίνος (like πίμπλημι (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 8 b.)): ἄρτων, with bread, Mk 8:4 (Psalm 131:15); τινα ἀπό with a genitive of the thing (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 12), passive, Lk 16:21 (Ps 103:13); (τινα ἐκ with the genitive of the thing (Buttmann, as above), passive, Lk 15:16 Tr marginal reading WH). β. metaphorically: τινα, to fulfill or satisfy the desire of anyone, Mt 5:6; Lk 6:21 (Ps 106:9).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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