χορτάζω chortazō

Greek word for “to feed” · Strong’s G5526 · used 16 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

χορτάζω; (χόρτος); (a) prop., of animals (see Lft.

How it is translated

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

• satisfied 7
• will be filled 2
• satisfy 2
• fed 2
• full 1
• do be filled 1
• filled 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 15 (2), Mark 8 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Matthew 14 (1), Mark 6 (1), Mark 7 (1), Luke 6 (1), Luke 9 (1), Luke 15 (1), Luke 16 (1)

Forms

• ἐχορτάσθησαν 6
• χορτασθῆναι 3
• χορτάσαι 2
• χορτασθήσονται 1
• χορτασθήσεσθε 1
• ἐχορτάσθητε 1
• χορτάζεσθαι 1
• χορτάζεσθε 1

Words used with it

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

• φαγεῖν phagein “to eat” 6
• κλάσμα klasma “fragment” 4
• περισσεύω perisseuō “to exceed” 4
• ἄρτος artos “bread” 4
• αἴρω airō “to take up” 4
• πεινάω peinaō “to hunger” 3
• ἐρημία erēmia “desert” 2
• σπυρίς spuris “basket” 2
• κόφινος kophinos “basket” 2
• πλήρης plērēs “full” 2
• ἐπιθυμέω epithumeō “to long for” 2
• πόθεν pothen “whence” 2

Key verses

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

• Matthew 5:6 — Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
• Matthew 14:20 — And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
• Matthew 15:33 — And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
• Matthew 15:37 — And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
• Mark 8:4 — And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
• Mark 8:8 — So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
• Luke 6:21 — Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
• Luke 9:17 — And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
• Luke 15:16 — And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
• John 6:26 — Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were…
• Philippians 4:12 — I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to…
• Revelation 19:21 — And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their…

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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.