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Strong G5315φαγεῖν

to eat

Transliteration
phagō
Pronunciation
fag'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

A primary verb (used as an alternate of G2068 in certain tenses); to eat (literally or figuratively): - eat meat.

Detailed definition

φάγομαιHellenistic for cl. ἔδομαι, see: ἐσθίω.
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).
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In the Bible

Strong G5315 appears in 90 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • eat87
  • do4
  • meat3
  • will3
  • have1

First verses

  1. Matthew 6:25
    Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
  2. Matthew 6:31
    Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
  3. Matthew 12:4
    How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
  4. Matthew 14:16
    But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
  5. Matthew 14:20
    And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
  6. Matthew 15:20
    These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
  7. Matthew 15:32
    Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
  8. Matthew 15:37
    And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
  9. Matthew 25:35
    For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
  10. Matthew 25:42
    For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
  11. Matthew 26:17
    Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
  12. Matthew 26:26
    And 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.
  13. Mark 2:26
    How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
  14. Mark 3:20
    And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
  15. Mark 5:43
    And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
  16. Mark 6:31
    And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
  17. Mark 6:36
    Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
  18. Mark 6:37
    He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
  19. Mark 6:42
    And they did all eat, and were filled.
  20. Mark 6:44
    And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
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φᾰγεῖν,
infinitive of ἔφαγον, with no present in use (except in late Gr., φαγεῖ [Refs (Anonymus “in EN” 448.16)]; φαγέοις in editions of [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 157 is see uncertain))], used as aorist 2 of ἐσθί; later 1st pers. plural ἐφάγαμεν [LXX (LXX.2Ki.19.42 codex B, _3rd.pers._ _plural_ ἐφάγοσανLXX.Gen.18.8: later)]future is φάγομαι,[LXX+NT (LXX.Sir.36.23, NT.Luke.14.15)]; 2nd pers. singular φάγεσαι [LXX+NT (LXX.Ruth.2.14, NT.Luke.17.8; φάγῃ LXX.Gen.3.14; also φαγοῦμαι [prev. work] 2 (variant))]; future φαγήσω is see uncertain in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 53.29)]:—eat, devour, both of men and beasts, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus; ἀζηχὲς φαγέμεν καὶ πιέμεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.3, compare 15.378, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 831e; reversely, πιόντα ἢ φαγόντα [prev. author] “Prt.” 314a, compare “Phd.” 81b, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 336 (uncertain reading): mostly with _accusative_, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.127, 24.411, etc.)]: with genitive, eat of a thing, [LXX+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.102, 15.373; ὄρνιθος ὄρνις πῶς ἂν ἁγνεύοι φαγώ; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 226; ἀπό τινος LXX.Gen.2.16.)]
II eat up, devour, squander, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.76, 4.33. (Cf. παματοφαγέω)] and Sanskrit bhájati 'apportion, (middle) enjoy'.)