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To eat

βιβρώσκωStrong’s G0977

bibrōskō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Bibrōskō is the Greek word usually translated “having eaten”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.”
John 6:13 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “having eaten”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • having eaten 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • John 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    βιβρώσκω bibrōskō · to eat

    βιβρώσκω, poët, and late prose, [in LXX for אכל ;] to eat: Jhn.6:13.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “eat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    EAT, verb transitive

    preterit tense ate; participle passive eat or eaten. [Latin edo, esse, esum.]

    1. To bite or chew and swallow, as food.“They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen” Daniel 4:25
    2. To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing.
    3. To consume; to waste.“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them” Ecclesiastes 5:11
    4. To enjoy.“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land” Isaiah 1:19
    All definitions and other forms of “eat”
    1. To consume; to oppress.“Who eat up my people as they eat bread” Psalms 14:4
    2. To feast.

    EAT, verb intransitive

    To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.

    1. “Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners” Matthew 9:11
    2. To take food; to be maintained in food.“Their word will eat as doth a canker” 2 Timothy 2:17

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.