boskō (to feed) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “feeding”, “do feed” and “feed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

feeding 6
do feed 2
to feed 1

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

Where it's used most

Luke 3
Matthew 2
Mark 2
John 2

4 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Matthew 8:33And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
Mark 5:11Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
Mark 5:14And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
Luke 8:32And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Luke 8:34When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
Luke 15:15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

All 9 verses, by book

Matthew 2: 8:30 8:33
Mark 2: 5:11 5:14
Luke 3: 8:32 8:34 15:15
John 2: 21:15 21:17

Greek dictionary

βόσκω boskō · to feed

βόσκω, [in LXX for רעה ;] prop., of a herdsman, to feed: Mat.8:33, Mrk.5:14, Luk.8:34 15:15; metaphorically, of Christian pastoral care, Jhn.21:15, 17. Pass., of cattle, to feed, graze: Mat.8:30, Mrk.5:11, Luk.8:32.† SYN.: ποιμαίνειν, to tend, shepherd, a wider term, including oversight as well as feeding (see Tr., Syn., §xxv). (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

FEED, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive [See Father.]

To give food to; as, to feed an infant; to feed horses and oxen.
To supply with provisions.
To supply; to furnish with any thing of which there is constant consumption, waste or use.
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

All definitions and other forms of “feed”

To nourish; to cherish; to supply with nutriment; as, to feed hope or expectation; to feed vanity.
To keep in hope or expectation; as, to feed one with hope.
To supply fuel; as, to feed a fire.
To delight; to supply with something desirable; to entertain; as, to feed the eye with the beauties of a landscape.
To give food or fodder for fattening; to fatten.
To supply with food, and to lead, guard and protect; a scriptural sense.“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd” Isaiah 40:11

FEED, verb intransitive

To take food; to eat.
To subsist by eating; to prey.
To pasture; to graze; to place cattle to feed Exodus 22:5
To grow fat.

FEED, noun

Food; that which is eaten; pasture; fodder; applied to that which is eaten by beasts, not to the food of men.
Meal, or act of eating.

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