UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: to cause to eat one’s fill, to satisfy with food

Semantic entry: 23.16

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Eat, Drink

Definition: to cause to eat so as to become satisfied

Notes: In some languages one may translate χορτάζω in RV MAT 15:33 · LV MAT 15:33 · Read together MAT 15:33 as ‘to cause to have as much as they wanted’ or ‘to give them food so that they didn’t want any more.’|In RV MAT 5:6 · LV MAT 5:6 · Read together MAT 5:6 (ὅτι αὐτοὶ χορτασθήσονται ‘because they will be satisfied’) the occurrence of χορτάζω should be interpreted as figurative, for it does not have specific reference to being satisfied with food (see 25.82: χορτάζω).

Sense 2: to eat one’s fill

Semantic entry: 23.15

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Eat, Drink

Definition: to eat, resulting in a state of being satisfied

Notes: One may render ‘were satisfied’ as ‘had all you wanted to eat’ or ‘did not want to eat any more.’

Forms: χορτάζομαι[a]

Sense 3: to be satisfied, to be content with

Semantic entry: 25.82

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Content, Satisfied

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of χορτάζομαι[a] ‘to eat one’s fill,’ 23.15: χορτάζω) to be satisfied or content with some object or state

Forms: χορτάζομαι[b]