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Strong's #5526 - χορτάζω
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- to feed with herbs, grass, hay, to fill, satisfy with food, to fatten
- of animals
- to fill or satisfy men
- to fulfil or satisfy the desire of any one
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χορτ-άζω,
feed, fatten, prop. of cattle (Ael.Dion. Fr. 326), χ. ἕλικας βόας ἔνδον ἐόντας Hes. Op. 452; χορτάσω τὸν κάνθαρον (the beetle being comically treated as a horse), Ar. Pax 176; τούτοισι (sc. σιτίοις).. τοῦτον χορτάσω ib. 139; c. acc. rei, Pl. R. 372d: — Pass., eat their fill, of cattle, ib. 586a; τινος of a thing, Thphr. CP 4.9.1.
II of persons, feed, βολβοῖς ἐμαυτὸν χορτάσω Eub. 7.5; ἡ θυγάτηρ τὴν μητέρα οὐκ ἐχόρτασεν οὔτε ἡ μήτηρ τὴν θυγατέρα Supp.Epigr. 6.187 (Phrygia): c. gen., fill full of.., θεράπευε καὶ χόρταζε τῶν μονῳδιῶν (metaph.) Ar. Fr. 154: — Pass., c. acc., χορταζόμενοι γάλα λευκόν Cratin. 142 (hex.): c. dat., χ. ἅπασιν ἀγαθοῖς Amphis 28: c. gen., στεμφύλων Arist. Fr. 107: metaph., λύπης Ps.-Callisth. 2.22; ζωῆς LXX To. 12.9; ἔν τινι Psalms 17:15(16).15: abs., feast, κεχόρτασμαι.. οὐ κακῶς Eub. 30.1, cf. Araros 21, Nicostr. 20, Men. 465, Mark 7:27, Arr. Epict. 1.9.19.
χορτάζω: 1 aorist ἐχόρτασα; 1 aorist passive, ἐχορτασθην; future passive, χορτασθήσομαι; (χόρτος, which see); first in Hesiod (Works, 450);
a. to feed with herbs, grass, hay, to fill or satisfy with food, to fatten; animals (so uniformly in the earlier Greek writings (cf. Lightfoot on Philippians 4:12; Winer's Grammar, 23)): ὄρνεα ἐκ τῶν σαρκῶν, passive, Revelation 19:21 (here A. V. were filled).
b. in later (cf. Sturz, Dial. Maced. and Alex., p. 200ff) and Biblical Greek, to fill or satisfy men (the Sept. for שָׁבַע and הִשְׂבִּיעַ ; with some degree of contempt in Plato, de rep. 9, p. 586 a. κεκυφοτες εἰς γῆν καί εἰς τραπέζας βοσκονται χορταζόμενοι καί ὀχευοντες). α. properly: τινα, Matthew 15:33; passive, Matthew 14:20; Matthew 15:37; Mark 6:42; Mark 7:27; Mark 8:8; Luke 9:17; John 6:26; James 2:16; opposed to πεινᾶν, Philippians 4:12; τινα τίνος (like πίμπλημι (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 8 b.)): ἄρτων, with bread, Mark 8:4 (Psalm 131:15
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χορτάζω ,
(< χόρτος ),
[in LXX for H7646, Psalms 17:14 al.;]
(a) prop., of animals (v. Lft. on Philippians 4:12), to feed, fatten: Revelation 19:21;
(b) in late Gk. (Kennedy, Sources, 82, 156), of persons, to fill or satisfy with food: c. acc pers., Matthew 15:33; pass., Matthew 14:20; Matthew 15:37, Mark 6:42; Mark 7:27; Mark 8:8, Luke 9:17, John 6:26, James 2:16; opp. to πεινᾶν , Philippians 4:12; c. gen. rei, Mark 8:4; ἀπό , Luke 16:21; ἐκ , Luke 15:16, WH, txt.,; metaph., Matthew 5:6, Luke 6:21.†
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