Strong G2068ἐσθίω
to eat
- Transliteration
- esthiō
- Pronunciation
- es-thee'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Strengthened for a primary word ἔδω edō (to eat); used only in certain tenses the rest being supplied by G5315; to eat (usually literally): - devour eat live.
Detailed definition
ἐσθίω, and (poet, and late prose) ἔσθω,
[in LXX chiefly for אכל;]
to eat;
__(a) absol.: Mat.14:20, 21 Mrk.6:31, Jhn.4:31, al.; ἐν τ. φαγεῖν (on this aor. form, see M, Pr., 111), 1Co.11:21; διδόναι φαγεῖν, with dative of person(s), Mrk.5:43, al.; ἐ. καὶ πίνειν, Mat.6:25, 31 Luk.10:7, al.; of ordinary use of food and drink, 1Co.9:4 11:22; of partaking of food at table, Mrk.2:16, Luk.5:30, al.; opposite to fasting, Mat.11:18, Luk.5:33, al.; of revelling, Mat.24:49, Luk.12:45.
__(b) with accusative of thing(s): Mat.6:25, Mrk.1:6, Jhn.6:31, Rom.14:2, al.; ἄρτον (Heb. אָכַל לֶחֶם), Mat.15:2, Mrk.3:20, al.; τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἄ., 2Th.3:12; ἄ. before παρά, genitive of person(s), 2Th.3:8; τά before id., Luk.10:7; τ. πάσχα, Mat.26:17, Mrk.14:12 al; τ. κυριακὸν δεῖπνον, 1Co.11:20; τ. θυσίας, 1Co.10:18; before ἐκ (= cl. part. genitive), Jhn.6:26, 5o, 51, 1Co.11:28; ἀπό (cf. Heb. אָכַל מִן), Mat.15:27, Mrk.7:28; metaphorically, to devour, consume: Heb.10:27, Jas.5:3, Rev.17:16 (cf. κατ-, συν-εσθίω).
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for אכל;]
to eat;
__(a) absol.: Mat.14:20, 21 Mrk.6:31, Jhn.4:31, al.; ἐν τ. φαγεῖν (on this aor. form, see M, Pr., 111), 1Co.11:21; διδόναι φαγεῖν, with dative of person(s), Mrk.5:43, al.; ἐ. καὶ πίνειν, Mat.6:25, 31 Luk.10:7, al.; of ordinary use of food and drink, 1Co.9:4 11:22; of partaking of food at table, Mrk.2:16, Luk.5:30, al.; opposite to fasting, Mat.11:18, Luk.5:33, al.; of revelling, Mat.24:49, Luk.12:45.
__(b) with accusative of thing(s): Mat.6:25, Mrk.1:6, Jhn.6:31, Rom.14:2, al.; ἄρτον (Heb. אָכַל לֶחֶם), Mat.15:2, Mrk.3:20, al.; τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἄ., 2Th.3:12; ἄ. before παρά, genitive of person(s), 2Th.3:8; τά before id., Luk.10:7; τ. πάσχα, Mat.26:17, Mrk.14:12 al; τ. κυριακὸν δεῖπνον, 1Co.11:20; τ. θυσίας, 1Co.10:18; before ἐκ (= cl. part. genitive), Jhn.6:26, 5o, 51, 1Co.11:28; ἀπό (cf. Heb. אָכַל מִן), Mat.15:27, Mrk.7:28; metaphorically, to devour, consume: Heb.10:27, Jas.5:3, Rev.17:16 (cf. κατ-, συν-εσθίω).
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2068 appears in 55 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- eat46
- eateth9
- as2
- devour1
- live1
- which1
First verses
- Matthew 9:11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
- Matthew 11:18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
- Matthew 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
- Matthew 12:1At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
- Matthew 14:21And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
- Matthew 15:2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
- Matthew 15:27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
- Matthew 15:38And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
- Matthew 24:49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
- Matthew 26:21And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
- Matthew 26:26And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
- Mark 1:6And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
- Mark 2:16And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
- Mark 7:2And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
- Mark 7:3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
- Mark 7:4And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
- Mark 7:5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
- Mark 7:28And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
- Mark 14:18And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
- Mark 14:22And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἐσθίω
(compare ἔσθω, ἔδω, the latter of which is the radical form, and supplies future and perfect of ἐσθίω), imperfect ἤσθιον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 147:)]future ἔδομαι (old present subjunctive of non-thematic stem) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.237, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1357 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; ἐδοῦμαι late, (προκατ-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hes.” 7, etc.)]: perfect ἐδήδοκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 362, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.20; _optative_ ἐδηδοκοίη 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 320)]; Epic dialect participle ἐδηδώς, -υῖα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.542, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 560)]: pluperfect ἐδηδόκειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 4 (variant):)] —middle, aorist 1 ἠδεσάμην (κατ-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.752)]:—passive, ἐσθίομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.318, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.12.4, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cyn.” 11, etc.:)]aorist 1 ἠδέσθην variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.54, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 908a29, (ἀπ-, κατ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 138, 35:)]perfect ἐδήδεσμαι (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 110e, ἐδήδεμαι (ἀπ-) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 591a5 (variant))]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular ἐδήδοται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.56.)] — The aorist 2 and later also the future are supplied by φαγ- (see. φαγεῖν); in Ionic dialect and Hellenistic Greek the perfect is βέβρωκα βέβρωμαι, aorist passive ἐβρώθη; in late Greek the present is τρώγω:—eat, ἐσθιέμεν καὶ πινέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.305, 21.69)]; τὰ ἐσθίοντα ἐν στρατιᾷ the ration-strength, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.17: usually with _accusative_, κρέα ἤσθιον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.348, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 671 (from a satyric drama), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 233: with _genitive_, ἐ. τινός)]eat of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.6, etc.)]; of animals, devour, ἤσθιε δ᾽ ὥς τε λέων ὀρεσίτροφος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.292; χρόα γῦπες ἔδονται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.237, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 524, 773, 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 9, etc.)]; consume, βίοτον καὶ κτήματ᾽ ἔδονται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.123:)] —passive, ἐσθίεταί μοι οἶκος my house is eaten up, I am eaten out of house and home,[Refs (4.318; ὅσσα τοι ἐκπέποται καὶ ἐδήδοται 22.56.)]
2 metaphorically, πάντας πῦρ ἐσθίει the fire devours all, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.182)]; of an eating sore, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 253:)] —passive, ὀδόντες ἐσθιόμενοι decayed teeth, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 19.3)]; ἐσθιόμενα eroded parts of the bowel, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.20.)]
3 fret, vex, ἐ. ἑαυτόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 287 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐ. τὴν χελύνην ὑπ᾽ ὀργῆς to bite the lip,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1083; ἐ. καρδίαν 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.12e.)]
4 take in one's mouth, γλῶτταν αὐλοῦ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.20.)]
(compare ἔσθω, ἔδω, the latter of which is the radical form, and supplies future and perfect of ἐσθίω), imperfect ἤσθιον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 147:)]future ἔδομαι (old present subjunctive of non-thematic stem) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.237, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1357 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; ἐδοῦμαι late, (προκατ-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hes.” 7, etc.)]: perfect ἐδήδοκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 362, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.20; _optative_ ἐδηδοκοίη 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 320)]; Epic dialect participle ἐδηδώς, -υῖα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.542, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 560)]: pluperfect ἐδηδόκειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 4 (variant):)] —middle, aorist 1 ἠδεσάμην (κατ-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.752)]:—passive, ἐσθίομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.318, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.12.4, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cyn.” 11, etc.:)]aorist 1 ἠδέσθην variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.54, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 908a29, (ἀπ-, κατ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 138, 35:)]perfect ἐδήδεσμαι (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 110e, ἐδήδεμαι (ἀπ-) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 591a5 (variant))]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular ἐδήδοται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.56.)] — The aorist 2 and later also the future are supplied by φαγ- (see. φαγεῖν); in Ionic dialect and Hellenistic Greek the perfect is βέβρωκα βέβρωμαι, aorist passive ἐβρώθη; in late Greek the present is τρώγω:—eat, ἐσθιέμεν καὶ πινέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.305, 21.69)]; τὰ ἐσθίοντα ἐν στρατιᾷ the ration-strength, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.17: usually with _accusative_, κρέα ἤσθιον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.348, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 671 (from a satyric drama), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 233: with _genitive_, ἐ. τινός)]eat of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.6, etc.)]; of animals, devour, ἤσθιε δ᾽ ὥς τε λέων ὀρεσίτροφος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.292; χρόα γῦπες ἔδονται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.237, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 524, 773, 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 9, etc.)]; consume, βίοτον καὶ κτήματ᾽ ἔδονται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.123:)] —passive, ἐσθίεταί μοι οἶκος my house is eaten up, I am eaten out of house and home,[Refs (4.318; ὅσσα τοι ἐκπέποται καὶ ἐδήδοται 22.56.)]
2 metaphorically, πάντας πῦρ ἐσθίει the fire devours all, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.182)]; of an eating sore, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 253:)] —passive, ὀδόντες ἐσθιόμενοι decayed teeth, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 19.3)]; ἐσθιόμενα eroded parts of the bowel, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.20.)]
3 fret, vex, ἐ. ἑαυτόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 287 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐ. τὴν χελύνην ὑπ᾽ ὀργῆς to bite the lip,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1083; ἐ. καρδίαν 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.12e.)]
4 take in one's mouth, γλῶτταν αὐλοῦ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.20.)]