To eat
φαγεῖνStrong’s G5315phagein
Appears in 90 verses of the New Testament
In short
Phagein is the Greek word usually translated “eat”, “ate” and “do eat”. It appears in 90 verses of the New Testament.
“Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:”
Meaning
Usually translated “eat”, “ate” and “do eat”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- to eat 34
- ate 9
- do eat 7
- you may eat 5
- they ate 4
- may eat 4
- they may eat 3
- i may eat 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 19
- Mark 16
- John 14
- Matthew 12
- 1 Corinthians 10
- Revelation 7
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 6:25Therefore 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?
- Matthew 6:31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
- Matthew 12:4How 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?
- Matthew 14:16But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
- Matthew 14:20And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
- Matthew 15:20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
All 90 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
φαγεῖν phagein · to eat
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 . …
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.]
- To bite or chew and swallow, as food.“They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen” Daniel 4:25
- To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing.
- To consume; to waste.“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them” Ecclesiastes 5:11
- 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”
- To consume; to oppress.“Who eat up my people as they eat bread” Psalms 14:4
- To feast.
EAT, verb intransitive
To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.
- “Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners” Matthew 9:11
- 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.