Quick Definition
μασσάομαι v. I bite, gnaw
Strong's Definition
from a primary masso (to handle or squeeze); to chew
KJV Usage: gnaw
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | ἐκμάσσω
23.40 · Physiological Processes and States · Processes Involving the Mouth, Other Than Eating and Drinking
to bite to bite with the teeth In some languages it is important to distinguish clearly between three different kinds of biting: the biting of food, the biting of one’s own lips or tongue, and the biting of a person in a fight or quarrel.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μασσάομαι (RG) more correctly μασάομαι (LT Tr WH): impf. 3 pers. plur. ἐμασῶντο; (MAQ, μάσσω, to knead) ; to chew, consume, eat, devour, (κρέας, Arstph. Plut. 321; ra δέρματα τῶν θυρεῶν, Joseph. Ὁ. 1. 6, 3, 3; ῥίζας ξύλων, Sept. Job xxx. 4, and other exx. in other auth.) : ἐμασῶντο τὰς γλώσσας αὐτῶν, they gnawed their tongues (for pain), Rev. xvi. 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: Jb 30:4 (לֶחֶם), Si 19:9 A*;]
to bite, chew: Re 16:10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μασάομαι. The correct spelling of this verb with a single o, as in Rev 167° (cf. Job 304), is found in the magic P Lond 46269 (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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
μασσάομαι (massaomai) — to gnaw. μασσάομαι, μασί-σσημα, μασί-σσησις, μασι-σσητήρ, incorrectly written for μασάομαι, etc. μάσσεται, see at {μαίομαι}.