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To feed

זוּןStrong’s H2109

zun

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Zun is the Hebrew word usually translated “well fed”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.”
Jeremiah 5:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. To feed(Hophal) to be well fed
How it's translated
  • well fed 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    זוּן zun · to feed

    1) to feed 1a) (Hophal) to be well fed

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    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.]

    1. To give food to; as, to feed an infant; to feed horses and oxen.
    2. To supply with provisions.
    3. To supply; to furnish with any thing of which there is constant consumption, waste or use.
    4. 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”
    1. To nourish; to cherish; to supply with nutriment; as, to feed hope or expectation; to feed vanity.
    2. To keep in hope or expectation; as, to feed one with hope.
    3. To supply fuel; as, to feed a fire.
    4. To delight; to supply with something desirable; to entertain; as, to feed the eye with the beauties of a landscape.
    5. To give food or fodder for fattening; to fatten.
    6. 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

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

    FEED, noun

    1. Food; that which is eaten; pasture; fodder; applied to that which is eaten by beasts, not to the food of men.
    2. 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.