Strong's Greek · G977

G977 bibrṓskō

βιβρώσκω

bib-ro'-sko

to eat

Looking for Hebrew H977 bâchar? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G977. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

bibrṓskō appears once in Scripture, in John 6:13. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to eat

In the King James Version

eat

Derivation

a reduplicated and prolonged form of an obsolete primary verb (perhaps causative of G1006 (βόσκω));

Appears 1 time in Scripture

John 6:13

“So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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