To feed
χορτάζωStrong’s G5526chortazō
Appears in 16 verses of the New Testament
In short
Chortazō is the Greek word usually translated “were satisfied”, “satisfy” and “fed”. It appears in 16 verses of the New Testament.
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
Meaning
Usually translated “were satisfied”, “satisfy” and “fed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- were satisfied 6
- to satisfy 2
- to be fed 2
- will be filled 1
- to be satisfied 1
- you will be filled 1
- to be full 1
- do be filled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 4
- Mark 4
- Luke 4
- John 1
- Philippians 1
- James 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 14:20And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
- Matthew 15:33And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
- Matthew 15:37And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
- Mark 6:42And they did all eat, and were filled.
- Mark 7:27But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
- Mark 8:4And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
Greek dictionary
χορτάζω chortazō · to feed
χορτάζω (χόρτος), [in LXX for שָׂבַע, Psa.17:14 al. ;] (a) prop., of animals (see Lft. on Php.4:12), to feed, fatten: Rev.19:21; (b) in late Gk. (Kennedy, Sources, 82, 156), of persons, to fill or satisfy with food: with accusative of person(s), Mat.15:33; pass., Mat.14:20 15:37, Mrk.6:42 7:27 8:8, Luk.9:17, Jhn.6:26, Jas.2:16; opposite to πεινᾶν, Php.4:12; with genitive of thing(s), Mrk.8:4; ἀπό, Luk.16:21; ἐκ, Luk.15:16, WH, txt.; metaphorically, Mat.5:6, Luk.6:21.† (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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.