φαγεῖν phagein

Greek word for “to eat” · Strong’s G5315 · used 93 times in 86 verses

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Meaning

φάγομαιHellenistic for cl.

How it is translated

Glosses given for phagein in context, with how often each is used:

• eat 28
• ate 18
• may eat 15
• do eat 5
• will eat 4
• shall eat 3
• eat? 2
• having eaten 2
• may eat? 2
• shall i eat 2
• shall have eaten 2
• shall we eat 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

John 6 (10), Mark 6 (5), Luke 22 (4), Matthew 15 (3), Mark 8 (3), Luke 12 (3), John 4 (3), Romans 14 (3), 1 Corinthians 11 (3), Revelation 2 (3)

Forms

• φαγεῖν 34
• ἔφαγον 13
• φάγωσιν 6
• φάγητε 5
• φάγωμεν 5
• ἔφαγεν 5
• φάγω 5
• φάγῃ 4
• φάγε 4
• φαγόντες 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with phagein more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἄρτος artos “bread” 18
• πίνω pinō “to drink” 14
• δίδωμι didōmi “to give” 14
• πάσχα pascha “Passover lamb” 7
• μαθητής mathētēs “disciple” 11
• χορτάζω chortazō “to feed” 6
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 9
• κλάσμα klasma “fragment” 4
• θύω thuō “to sacrifice” 4
• μηδέ mēde “nor” 5
• βρῶμα brōma “food” 4
• σάρξ sarx “flesh” 6

Key verses

The verses using phagein that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 6:25 — Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the…
• Matthew 25:35 — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
• Matthew 26:26 — And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
• Luke 12:19 — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
• John 6:51 — I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I…
• John 18:28 — Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be…
• Acts 23:12 — And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed…
• 1 Corinthians 15:32 — If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
• Revelation 2:7 — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst…
• Revelation 2:14 — But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the…
• Revelation 2:20 — Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my…
• Revelation 17:16 — And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.