Definition

used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by G5315 (φάγω); to eat (usually literal)

Etymology

strengthened for a primary (to eat);

Where the KJV renders it

• devour
• eat
• live

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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