Greek verb · G1625
ἐκτρέφω
ektrephoek-tref'-o
prop., of children; to nourish
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ektréphō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1625is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1625
to rear up to maturity, i.e. (genitive case) to cherish or train
The King James renders it: bring up, nourish.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ektrepho is rendered "prop., of children; to nourish". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Ephesians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "prop., of children".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ephesians 5:29Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
Ephesians 5:29ἐκτρέφει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Ephesians.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: prop., of children, and to nourish.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| prop., of childrento nurture, bring up | Tagged as
| WhereEphesians 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead… |
| to nourishEph.5:29.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereEphesians 5:29Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐκτρέφει1
- ἐκτρέφετε1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural1V-PAM-2P
Ephesians
two uses
Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
- ἐκτρέφειektrepheiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he nourishes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- ἐκτρέφετεektrepheteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do bring up
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.