STRONGS NUMBER G5176


Word Summary
trōgō: to gnaw, munch, crunch
Original Word: τρώγω
Transliteration: 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: τρώγω

τρώγω; 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.