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G1089 γεύομαι (geúomai)
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γεύομαι v. I taste, experience

Strong's Definition

a primary verb; to taste; by implication, to eat; figuratively, to experience (good or ill)

KJV Usage: eat, taste

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

verb

24.72 · Sensory Events and States · Taste

to taste

MAT 27:34 · JHN 2:9 · COL 2:21

23.3 · Physiological Processes and States · Eat, Drink

to eat, eating to consume solid food

LUK 14:24 · ACT 10:10 · ACT 20:11 · ACT 23:14

90.78 · Case · Experiencer

to experience (a figurative extension of meaning of γεύομαι[a] ‘to taste,’ 24.72) to experience, probably focusing on personal involvement

MAT 16:28 · MRK 9:1 · LUK 9:27 · JHN 8:52 · HEB 2:9 · HEB 6:4 · HEB 6:5 · 1PE 2:3

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

γεύω: [οἵ. Lat. gusto, Germ. kosten; Curtius § 131]; to cause to taste, to give one a taste of, τινά (Gen. xxv. 30). In the N. T. only Mid. γεύομαι : fut. γεύσομαι ; 1 aor. ἐγευσάμην; 1. (0 taste, try the flavor of: Mt. xxvii. 34; contrary to better Grk. usage (ef. W. § 30, 7c. [and p. 36; Antuol. Pal. 6, 120]) with ace. of the obj.: Jn. ii.9. 2. to taste, i.e. perceive the flavor of, partake of, enjoy: τινος, Lk. xiv. 24 (yevoerai μου τοῦ δείπνου, i. e. shall paryh take of my banquet); hence, as in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down, i. q. to feel, make trial of, experience: twos, Heb. vi. 4; ῥῆμα θεοῦ, ib. 5, (τῆς γνώσεως, Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 36,2). asin Chald., Syr. and Rabbin. writers, γεύεσθαι tov θανάτου [W. 33 (32)]: Mt. xvi. 28; Mk. ix. 1; Lk. ix. 27; Jn. viii. 52; Heb. ii. 9; [ef. Wetstein on Mt. 1. c.; Meyer on Jn. 1. c.; Bleek, Liinem., Alf. on Heb. 1. e.]. foll. by ὅτι: 1 Pet. ii. 3 (Ps. xxxiii. (xxxiv.) 9). 3. to take food, eat: absol., Acts x. 10; xx. 11; οἵ. Kypke, Observy. ii. p. 47; to take nourishment, eat —[but substantially as above], with gen. μηδενός, Acts xxiii. 14; with the ellipsis of a gen. denoting unlawful food, Col. ii. 21.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

γεύομαι geuomai 15x

to taste, Mt. 27:34; Jn. 2:9; absol. to take food, Acts 10:10, et al.; met. to have perception of, experience, Heb. 6:4, 5; 1 Pet. 2:3; θανάτου γεύεσθαι, to experience death, to die, Mt. 16:28, et al.

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

γεύω,

[in LXX chiefly for טעם;]

to make to taste. Mid., to taste eat: absol., Ac 10:10 20:11, Col 2:21; c. gen., Mt 27:34, Lk 14:24, Ac 23:14; c. acc. (not cl., but v. Westc, Heb., 2:9; M, Pr., 66, 245), Jo 2:9. Metaph., He 6:4; ῥῆμα θεοῦ, He 6:5 (on case, v. supr., and cf. Milligan, NTD, 68) θανάτου (cf. Talmudic טַעַם מִיתָה), Mt 16:28, Mk 9:1, Lk 9:27, Jo 8:52, He 2:9; seq. ὅτι, I Pe 2:3 (Cremer, 148).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

γεύομαι. For y. with genitive, cf. the standing formula in the ἀφο ὶ of the Decian persecution (A.D. 250) τῶν ἱερῶν ἐγευσάμην, e. g. P Oxy IV. 65812 (= Selections, p. 116). With the acc., as in Jn 2° and in the LXX fairly often, it may be cited from Prezsigke 1106 (Ptolemaic), where sundry officials καὶ οἱ συμπόσιον γευόμενοι join in a complimentary monument to their entertainer. See Abbott, Joh. Gr. p. 76f. ; and on the change of construction in Heb 64! see Milligan Documents, p. 68. The verb is used absolutely (as in Ac 10!) in Preisrgke 1944 (inscr. on a cup—Roman age) ἐκ τούτου ἐγευσάμην. The verbal occurs, negatived, in P Giss I. 1013 (1i/A.D.) ἄ[γ]ευστος ἐκοιμώμην, ‘I was going to bed without bite or sup.” The noun from a compound may be observed in a small undated fragment, CPHerm 27 προσγεύσεως τί . «0: ἀρτοκόπῳ appears just below. MGr has γεύομαι esten tes still, = ‘‘ taste,

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

γεύω (geuō) — to taste. γεύω, future γεύσω [Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist ἔγευσα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: —middle, future γεύσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἐγευσάμην [Refs]; γεύσεται, -σόμεθα, Epic dialect for -ηται, -ώμεθα, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: 3rd.pers. plural optative γευσαίατο [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect γέγευμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐγέγευντο [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—give a taste of, γλυκὺν γεύσας τὸν αἰῶνα [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. middle, γεύομαι, with perfect and pluperfect passive, taste, with genitive, προικὸς γεύσεσθαι Ἀχαιῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀλλήλων ἐγέγευντο they had tasted, eaten of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. take food, [NT+5th c.BC+]; dine, PLond. unpublished[Refs 4th c.AD+]

II.3. metaphorically, taste, make proof of, feel, δουρὸς ἀκωκῆς ἡμετέροιο γεύσεται [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε.. γευσόμεθ᾽ ἀλλήλων ἐγχείῃσιν let us try one another with the spear, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; taste the sweets of, ἀρχῆς, ἐλευθερίης, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀλκᾶς, στεφάνων, [Refs]; of a married woman, ἀνδρὸς γεγευμένη [Refs 4th c.BC+]; γ. πόνων to have experience of them, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γ. ἐμπύρων make trial of them, [Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit ju[snull]áte 'enjoy', Latin gusto.)

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