Greek verb · G5142
τρέφω
trephotref'-o
to make to grow, bring up, rear (cl.; to nourish, feed
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tréphō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5142is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5142
but perhaps strengthened from the base of through the idea of convolution)
The King James renders it: bring up, feed, 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
trepho is rendered "to make to grow, bring up, rear (cl.; to nourish, feed". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to make to grow, bring up, rear (cl.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Matthew 6:26τρέφει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to make to grow, bring up, rear (cl., and to nourish, feed.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to make to grow, bring up, rear (cl.1Ma.3:33 1Mac 11:39): Luk.4:16 (T | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 4:16Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom… |
| to nourish, feedMat.6:26 25:37 | Tagged as
| WhereJeremiah 26:21King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and officials heard his words… |
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- τρέφει2
- ἐθρέψαμεν1
- ἔθρεψαν1
- ἐθρέψατε1
- τεθραμμένος1
- τρέφεσθαι1
- τρέφεται1
- τρέφωσιν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-PAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person plural1V-AAI-1P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-AAI-2P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-PAS-3P
- verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PPI-3S
- verb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PPN
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-RPP-NSM
Matthew
two uses
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- τρέφειtrepheiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: feeds
Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink?
- ἐθρέψαμενethrepsamenverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: fed
Luke
three uses
Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,
- τεθραμμένοςtethrammenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: raised
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
- τρέφειtrepheiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: feeds
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- ἔθρεψανethrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they feed
Acts
one use
Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.
- τρέφεσθαιtrephesthaiverb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: being nourished
James
one use
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
- ἐθρέψατεethrepsateverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: You have fattened
Revelation
two uses
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.
- τρέφωσινtrephosinverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may feed
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
- τρέφεταιtrephetaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she is nourished
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.