Bible Lexicons

";nourishment,"; ";food"; (Matthew 3:4 et saepe) : cf. P Petr III. 46 (4).3 (Ptol.) τῆς εἰς τὴν τροφὴν τῶν μόσχων ὀλύρας, ";rye for the food of calves,"; P Tebt I. 56.8 (c. B.C. 130–121) οὐκ ἔχομεν ἕως τῆς τροφῆς τ ̣ω ̣̑ν κτηνῶν ἡμῶν, ";we have not so much as food for our cattle"; (Edd.), P Ryl II. 229.12 (A.D. 38) περὶ τῆς τροφῆς τῶν χοιριδίω (ν), cf. .23, P Fay 115.5 (A.D. 101) ἀγόρασον ἡμῖν δύωι συνγευῆ χυρίδια εἰς τροφὴν εἰς ὖ (=οἶ)κον, ";buy us two pigs of a litter to keep at the house"; (Edd.), P Oxy IV. 705.78 (A.D. 210–20) εἰς συνωνὴν χ [όρτ ]ου ἡ πρόσοδος κατατεθήσεται εἰς τροφὰς καὶ δ ̣[απά ]νας. . ., ";for the purchase of hay, the revenue of which shall be devoted to the maintenance and support. . ."; (Edd.), P Tebt II. 600.4 (iii/A.D.) ἀφ᾽ ὧν ] ἀναλίσκομεν εἰς τροφὰς καὶ θυσίας, P Oxy VI. 938.2 (iii/iv A.D.) cited s.v. ἐνεδρεύω, and BGU IV. 1024viii. 16 (iv/v A.D.) τῆς θυγατρός μου [τ ]ελευτησάσης, ἀπεστερήθην τῶν τροφῶν, ";when my daughter died, I was deprived of my means of support.";

Ἡ τροφεία (not in LS8) in the same sense occurs frequently in the nursing-contracts BGU IV. 1058, 1106 al. (B.C. 13), and for τὰ τροφεῖα in a similar connexion see ib. I. 297.12 (A.D. 50) where a nurse acknowledges that she has received τὰ τροφεῖα καὶ τὰ ἔλαια καὶ τὸν ἱματισμὸν καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα καθήκει δίδοσ ̣θαι τροφω ̣̑.