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Strong's #2068: esthio (pronounced es-thee'-o)

strengthened for a primary edo (to eat); used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by 5315; to eat (usually literal):--devour, eat, live.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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esthiō

1) to eat

2) to eat (consume) a thing

2a) to take food, eat a meal

3) metaphorically to devour, consume

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: strengthened for a primary edo (to eat); used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by G5315

Citing in TDNT: 2:689, 262




Usage:

This word is used 65 times:

1 Corinthians 10:18: "the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the"
1 Corinthians 10:25: "is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:"
1 Corinthians 10:27: "whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake."
1 Corinthians 10:28: "This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed"
1 Corinthians 10:31: "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do,"
1 Corinthians 11:22: "What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or"
1 Corinthians 11:26: "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink"
1 Corinthians 11:27: "Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink"
1 Corinthians 11:28: "himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink"
1 Corinthians 11:29: "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh"
1 Corinthians 11:29: "and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself,"
1 Corinthians 11:34: "if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together"
2 Thessalonians 3:10: "not work, neither should he eat."
2 Thessalonians 3:12: "with quietness they work, and eat their own bread."
Hebrews 10:27: "fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries."









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