τρέφω (trέfō) — to provide food for / to give food to someone to eat / to take care of

Notes: It is possible that ἐκτρέφω[a] is somewhat more emphatic in meaning than τρέφω[a], but this cannot be determined from existing contexts.; There may very well be subtle differences of meaning in the series in 35.51: ἀνατρέφω / 35.51: ἐκτρέφω / 35.51: τεκνοτροφέω / 35.51: τρέφω, but there is no direct contextual evidence to support significant distinctions in meaning.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: τρέφω; aor.; ἔθρεψα; τρέφω; pf.pass.; τέθραμμαι

Related lemmas: ἀνατρέφω · διατροφή · ἐκτρέφω · ἐντρέφομαι · θρέμμα · θρόμβος · σύντροφος · τεκνοτροφέω · τροφή · τροφός · τροφοφορέω

Sense 1: to provide food for, to give food to someone to eat

Semantic entry: 23.6

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Eat, Drink

Definition: to provide food for, with the implication of a considerable period of time and the food being adequate nourishment{N:001}

Show passage in OET: MAT 6:26

OET-RV MAT 6:26

26 Think about the birds in the sky—they don’t plant seeds or harvest crops or gather grain into barns, but it’s your heavenly father who feeds them. Aren’t each of you worth more than them?

OET-LV MAT 6:26

26 Consider on the birds of _the sky, that they _are_ neither _sowing, nor are _they _reaping, nor are _they _gathering _together into barns, and the the heavenly father of _you _all is _feeding them, are_ not you _all _carrying _value more than them?

Show passage in OET: MAT 25:37

OET-RV MAT 25:37

37 Then those godly people will ask, ‘Master, when did we ever feed you when you were hungry, or give you a drink when you were thirsty?

OET-LV MAT 25:37

37 Then the righteous will _be _answering to _him saying:
master, when we _saw you hungering and we _fed, or thirsting and we _gave _to _drink?

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All 6 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 6:26 · OET MAT 25:37

LUK: OET LUK 12:24 · OET LUK 23:29

ACT: OET ACT 12:20

JAM: OET JAM 5:5

Sense 2: to take care of

Semantic entry: 35.45

Semantic domains: Help, Care For

Subdomains: Care For, Take Care Of

Definition: to take care of, with special reference to supplying necessary nourishment

Show passage in OET: JAM 5:5

OET-RV JAM 5:5

5 You have indulged yourselves and lived luxuriously but you’ve been fattening yourselves up as the time for your slaughter approaches.

OET-LV JAM 5:5

5 You _all _indulged on the earth.
And you _all _lived _luxuriously, you _all _nourished the hearts of _you _all in the_day of _slaughter.

Show passage in OET: REV 12:6

OET-RV REV 12:6

6 and the woman fled into the wilderness where God had prepared a place for her so that they might nourish her there for three and a half years.

OET-LV REV 12:6

6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she _is _having there a_place having _been _prepared by the god, in _order _that there they _may _be _nourishing her for _days two _hundred thousand sixty.

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All 3 recorded passages for this sense

JAM: OET JAM 5:5

REV: OET REV 12:6 · OET REV 12:14

Sense 3: to raise, to rear, to bring up

Semantic entry: 35.51

Semantic domains: Help, Care For

Subdomains: Rear, Bring Up

Definition: to raise a child to maturity by providing for physical and psychological needs{N:002}

Notes: To raise or bring up children may be expressed in a number of different ways, for example, ‘to give food to children,’ ‘to take care of children,’ ‘to be a parent to children,’ ‘to cause a child to become an adult,’ or ‘to make a child become like oneself.’

Show passage in OET: LUK 4:16

OET-RV LUK 4:16

16 When he got to Nazaret (Nazareth) where he grew up, he went into the Jewish meeting hall as usual on the Rest Day and stood up to do the reading.

OET-LV LUK 4:16

16 And he _came to Nazaret, where he _was having _been _brought _up, and he _came _in according _to that having _been _accustomed to _him, on the day of _the days _of _rest into the synagogue, and he _stood _up to _read.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

τρέφω

Form 1

Sense 1: to provide food for, to give food to someone to eat

Sense 2: to take care of

Sense 3: to raise, to rear, to bring up