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To satisfy

κορέννυμιStrong’s G2880

korennumi

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Korennumi is the Greek word usually translated “having been filled” and “satiated”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.”
Acts 27:38 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • having been filled 1
  • satiated 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Acts 1
  • 1 Corinthians 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

κορέννυμι korennumi · to satisfy

κορέννυμι (κόρος, surfeit), [in Symmachus.: Psa.22:27, Al, Psa.103:5 * ;] to satisfy: pass., τροφῆς, Act.27:38; metaphorically, of spiritual things, 1Co.4:8.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SAT'ISFY, verb transitive

[Latin satisfacio; satis, enough, and facio, to make.]

  1. To gratify wants, wishes or desires to the full extent; to supply possession or enjoyment till no more is desired.
  2. To supply fully what is necessary and demanded by natural laws; as, to satisfy with rain the desolate and waste ground. Job 38:27
  3. To pay to content; to recompense or indemnify to the full extent of claims; as, to satisfy demands.
  4. To appease by punishment; as, to satisfy rigor.
All definitions and other forms of “satisfy”
  1. To free from doubt, suspense or uncertainty; to cause the mind to rest in confidence by ascertaining the truth; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.
  2. To convince.
  3. To pay; to discharge; as, to satisfy an execution.

SAT'ISFY, verb intransitive

  1. To give content.
  2. To feed or supply to the full.
  3. To make payment. [But the intransitive use of this verb is generally elliptical.]

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.