Lexical Summary
trephó: To nourish, to feed, to bring up
Original Word: τρέφω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: trephó
Pronunciation: TREF-oh
Phonetic Spelling: (tref'-o)
KJV: bring up, feed, nourish
NASB: feeds, nourished, brought, fattened, fed, feed, nursed
Word Origin: [a primary verb (properly, threpho, but perhaps strengthened from the base of G5157 (τροπή - shifting) through the idea of convolution)]
1. (properly) to stiffen, i.e. fatten
2. (by implication), to cherish (with food, etc.), pamper, rear
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
bring up, feed, nourish.
A primary verb (properly, threpho; but perhaps strengthened from the base of trope through the idea of convolution); properly, to stiffen, i.e. Fatten (by implication, to cherish (with food, etc.), pamper, rear) -- bring up, feed, nourish.
see GREEK trope
HELPS Word-studies
5142 tréphō (from 5160 /trophḗ, "food") – properly, enlarge, fully develop because adequately nourished (fed); (figuratively) to bring (or experience) "personal enlargement," i.e. spiritual development from being properly fed (nourished, taken care of).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origina prim. verb
Definitionto make to grow, to nourish, feed
NASB Translationbrought (1), fattened (1), fed (1), feed (1), feeds (2), nourished (2), nursed (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5142: τρέφωτρέφω; 1 aorist
ἔθρεψα; passive, present
τρέφομαι; perfect participle
τεθραμμένος; from
Homer down;
to nourish, support; to feed:
τινα,
Matthew 6:26;
Matthew 25:37;
Luke 12:24;
Acts 12:20;
Revelation 12:6, 14;
to give suck, Luke 23:29 L T Tr WH;
to fatten, James 5:5 (here
A. V. nourish).
to bring up, nurture, Luke 4:16 (here
T WH marginal reading
ἀνατρέφω) (1 Macc. 3:33 1 Macc. 11:39, and often in secular authors). (Compare:
ἀνατρέφω,
ἐκτρέφω,
ἐντρέφω.)
