STRONGS G5176:
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.
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