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ποτίζω
potízō · Greek · Strong's G4222 · 15 occurrences
The KJV renders 11 different Hebrew and Greek words as “feed”
What it means
to furnish drink, irrigate
from a derivative of the alternate of G4095 (πίνω);
How the KJV renders it
give to drink, feed, water
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“feed”
also renders poimaínō (G4165), bóskō (G1006), psōmízō (G5595), tréphō (G5142), chortázō (G5526), zûwn (H2109), zûwn (H2110), ṭᵉʻam (H2939), ṭâraph (H2963), lâʻaṭ (H3938)
Answers that weigh this word
- Is hell eternal conscious torment or annihilation?
- What happens to those who never heard the gospel?
- Will everyone ultimately be saved?
- Can you be saved without belonging to a church?
- Did Jesus break the Sabbath?
Where it appears
15 occurrences in the Greek text.
1 Corinthians 3:2 · V-AAI-1S
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
1 Corinthians 3:6 · V-AAI-3S
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:7 · V-PAP-NSM
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:8 · V-PAP-NSM
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
1 Corinthians 12:13 · V-API-1P
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
Luke 13:15 · V-PAI-3S
Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water?
Matthew 10:42 V-AAS-3SMatthew 25:35 V-AAI-2PMatthew 25:37 V-AAI-1PMatthew 25:42 V-AAI-2PMatthew 27:48 V-IAI-3SMark 9:41 V-AAS-3SMark 15:36 V-IAI-3SRevelation 14:8 V-RAI-3SRomans 12:20 V-PAM-2S
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