ΘΡΕΨΑΙ, θρεψαι
THREPSAI, threpsai
Sounds Like: THREP-sai
Translations: to nourish, to feed, to bring up, to rear
From the root: ΘΡΕΦΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to nourish, feed, or bring up. It is often used in the context of providing sustenance or raising children. As an infinitive, it functions like 'to feed' or 'to nourish' in English, indicating purpose or result.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2378 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 7:116
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 1:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΡΕΦΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΘΡΕΨΑΤΕ — you nourished, you fed, you brought up, you reared
- ἘΘΡΕΨΕΝ — he nourished, he fed, he brought up, he reared
- ἘΚΘΡΕΨΑΙ — to nourish, to bring up, to rear, to feed, to raise
- ἘΠΕΘΡΕΨΑΤΕ — you nourished, you fed, you brought up, you reared, you fostered
- ΕΠΕΘΡΕΨΑΤΕ — you nourished, you fed, you brought up, you reared
- ΘΡΕΦ — nourish, feed, bring up, rear, grow
- ΘΡΕΦΩ — to nourish, to feed, to bring up, to rear, to support
- ΘΡΕΨ — to nourish, to feed, to bring up, to rear, to sustain, to grow
- ΘΡΕΨΑΜΕΝΗΝ — having nourished, having brought up, having fed, the one who nourished, the nourishing one
- ΘΡΕΨΑΣ — having nourished, having brought up, having fed, having reared
- ΘΡΕΨΩΜΕΝ — we may nourish, we may feed, we may bring up, we may rear
- ΥΠΟΘΡΕΨΕΙΝ — to nourish, to rear, to bring up, to support
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