Quick Definition
I bite, gnaw
Strong's Definition
to chew
Derivation: from a primary (to handle or squeeze);
KJV Usage: gnaw
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μασσάομαι (R G) more correctly μασάομαι (L T Tr WH): imperfect 3 person plural ἐμασῶντο; (ΜΑΩ μάσσω, to knead); to chew, consume, eat, devour (κρέας, Aristophanes, Plutarch, 321; τά δέρματα τῶν θυρεων, Josephus, b. j. 6, 3, 3; ῤίζας ξύλων, the Sept. Job_30:4, and other examples in other authors): ἐμασῶντο τάς γλώσσας αὐτῶν, they gnawed their tongues (for pain), Rev_16:10.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μασάομαι masaomai 1x
to chew, masticate, in NT to gnaw, Rev_16:10
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μασάομαι
( Rec. μασσ ), -ῶμαι
( Aristoph . and late writers, but not in Trag . or in good Att. . prose),
[in LXX : Job_30:4 ( H3899 ), Sir_19:9 A * ;]
to bite, chew: Rev_16:10 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μασάομαι [page 390]
The correct spelling of this verb with a single σ , as in Rev_16:10 (cf. Job_30:4 ), is found in the magic P Lond 46 .269 (iv/A.D.) (= I. p. 73) τοὺς ἰχθύας τοῖς στόμασι μασωμένους , fish gnawing with their mouths. Cf. Artemid. iv. 33 μασήσασθαι ἄρτους . MGr μασσῶ , chew.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μασάομαι (Rec. μασσ), -ῶμαι
(Aristoph. and late writers, but not in Trag. or in good Att.. prose), [in LXX: Job.30:4 (לֶחֶם), Sir.19:9 A * ;]
to bite, chew: Rev.16:10.†
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