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6.
(Aor. of
&
, 2719) signifies “to eat up” (
, used intensively,
and No. 2), John 2:17; Rev. 10:9-10; elsewhere it is translated “devour,” as also is
(see No. 1). See
DEVOUR
.
7.
$
(
$!
, 2880), “to satiate, to satisfy,” as with food, is used in the
middle voice in Acts 27:38, “had eaten enough”; in 1 Cor. 4:8, “ye are filled.” See
FILL
.¶
8.
$
(
&
, 4906), “to eat with” (
$
, “with,” and No. 1), is found in
Luke 15:2; Acts 10:41; 11:3; 1 Cor. 5:11; Gal. 2:12.¶
9.
is a phrase consisting of the noun
, denoting (a) “pasturage,” (b)
“growth, increase,” and
, “to have.” In John 10:9 the phrase signifies “to find
pasture” (a). In 2 Tim. 2:17, with the meaning (b), the phrase is, lit., “will have growth,”
translated “will eat,” i.e., “will spread like a gangrene.” It is used in Greek writings, other
than the NT, of the spread of a fire, and of ulcers. See
PASTURE
.¶
Note:
The verb
, “to take a part or share of anything with others, to
partake of, share,” is translated “did eat,” in Acts 2:46, corrected in the
RV
to “did take”;
a still more suitable rendering would be “shared,” the sharing of food being suggested; cf.
, “to share,” e.g., Luke 3:11.
B. Nouns.
1.
(
$
, 1035), akin to A, No. 5, denotes (a) “the act of eating,” e.g., Rom.
14:17; said of rust, Matt. 6:19-20; or, more usually (b) “that which is eaten, food” (like
, “food”), “meat,” John 4:32; 6:27, 55; Col. 2:16; Heb. 12:16 (“morsel of meat”);
“food,” 2 Cor. 9:10; “eating,” 1 Cor. 8:4. See
FOOD
,
MEAT
,
RUST
.¶
2.
(
$ 1
, 4371), primarily “a dainty or relish” (especially cooked
fish), to be eaten with bread (
, “to,” and A, No. 2), then, “fish” in general, is used in
John 21:5, “Have ye aught to eat?” (
KJV
, “have ye any meat?”). Moulton remarks that the
evidences of the papyri are to the effect that
, “is not so broad a word as
‘something to eat.’ The apostles had left even loaves behind them once, Mark 8:14; they
might well have left the ‘relish’ on this occasion. It would normally be fish; cf. Mark
6:38” (Gram. of NT Greek, Vol. 1, p. 170).¶
C. Adjective.
(
$0
, 1034), akin to A, No. 5, and B., signifying “eatable,” is found in
Luke 24:41,
RV
, appropriately, “to eat,” for the
KJV
, “meat.”¶ In the Sept., Lev. 19:23;
Neh. 9:25; Ezek. 47:12.¶
EDGE, EDGED
A. Noun.
(
, 4750), the mouth (cf. Eng., “stomach,” from
, 1 Tim. 5:23),
has a secondary and figurative meaning in reference to the “edge of a sharp instrument, as
of a sword,” Luke 21:24; Heb. 11:34 (cf. the Sept., e.g., Gen. 34:26; Judg. 18:27). See
FACE
,
MOUTH
.
B. Adjective.