Word Summary
trōgō: to gnaw, munch, crunch
Original Word: τρώγωTransliteration: trōgō
Phonetic Spelling: (tro'-go)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to gnaw, munch, crunch
Meaning: to gnaw, munch, crunch
Strong's Concordance
eat.
Probably strengthened from a collateral form of the base of trauma and tribos through the idea of corrosion or wear; or perhaps rather of a base of trugon and trizo through the idea of a craunching sound; to gnaw or chew, i.e. (generally) to eat -- eat.
see GREEK trugon
see GREEK trizo
see GREEK trauma
see GREEK tribos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5176: τρώγωτρώγω;
to gnaw, crunch, chew raw vegetables or fruits (as nuts, almonds, etc.):
ἄγρωστιν, of mules,
Homer, Odyssey 6, 90, and often in other writers of animals feeding; also of men from
Herodotus down (as
σῦκα,
Herodotus 1, 71;
βότρυς,
Aristophanes eqq. 1077; blackberries, the Epistle of Barnabas 7, 8 [ET] (where see Harnack, Cunningham, Müller);
κρόμυον,
μετά δεῖπνον,
Xenophon, conv. 4, 8); universally,
to eat: absolutely, (
δύο τρώγομεν ἀδελφοί, we mess together,
Polybius 32, 9, 9) joined with
πίνειν,
Matthew 24:38 (so also
Demosthenes, p. 402, 21;
Plutarch, symp. 1, 1, 2;
Ev. Nicod. c. 15, p. 640, Thilo edition (p. 251
Tdf. edition));
τόν ἄρτον,
John 13:18 (see
ἄρτος 2 and
ἐσθίω b.); figuratively,
John 6:58;
τήν σάρκα, the 'flesh' of Christ (see
σάρξ, 1),
John 6:54, 56f.