To feed
טְעֵםStrong’s H2939team (te-am)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Team is the Aramaic word usually translated “feed” and “fed him”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to feed, cause to eat
How it's translated
- they will feed 2
- they fed him 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:32In contextAnd they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 5:21In contextAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Aramaic dictionary
טְעֵם team · to feed
(P'al) to feed, cause to eat Aramaic of ta.am (טָעַם "to taste" H2938)
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.]
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.