STRONGS G5526:
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 (
Ps. 132:15));
τινα ἀπό with a genitive of the thing (cf.
Buttmann, § 132, 12), passive,
Luke 16:21 (
Psalm 103:13 (
Ps. 104:13)); (
τινα ἐκ with the genitive of the thing (
Buttmann, as above), passive,
Luke 15:16 Tr marginal reading
WH).
β. metaphorically:
τινα,
to fulfill or satisfy the desire of anyone, Matthew 5:6;
Luke 6:21 (
Psalm 106:9 (
Ps. 107:9)).
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