Quick Definition
τρώγω v. I eat
Strong's Definition
or perhaps rather of a base of G5167 (τρυγών) and G5149 (τρίζω) through the idea of a craunching sound; to gnaw or chew, i.e. (generally) to eat
Derivation: probably strengthened from a collateral form of the base of G5134 (τραῦμα) and G5147 (τρίβος) through the idea of corrosion or wear;
KJV Usage: eat
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τρώγω; to gnaw, craunch, chew raw vegetables or fruits (as nuts, almonds, ete.) : ἄγρωστιν, of mules, Hom. Od. 6, 90, and often in other writers of animals feeding; also of men fr. Hdt. down (as σῦκα, Hdt. 1, 71; βότρυς, Arstph. eqq. 1077; blackberries, Barn. ep. 7, 8 [where see Harnack, Cunningham, Miiller]; κρόμυον pera δεῖmvov, Xen. conv. 4, 8) ; univ. to eat: absol. (δύο τρώγνομεν
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τρώγω trōgō 6x
pr. to crunch; to eat, Mt. 24:38; from the Hebrew, ἄρτον τρώγειν, to take food, partake of a meal, Jn. 6:54, 56-58; 13:18*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* τρώγω prop., of animals, to gnaw, munch, crunch (Hom., al.).
Of men, to eat raw food, as vegetables, nuts, etc. (Hdt., al.).
In late vernacular, simply to eat (= ἐσθίω): Mt 24:38, Jo 6:54, 56, 57, 58 13:18 (LXX ἐσθίων) (v. Kennedy, Sources, 82, 155; MM, xxv).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τρώγω, orig. of animals, ‘‘munch,” ‘‘ crunch,” ‘eat audibly,” then of men, ‘feat vegetables, fruit, etc,’’ as in Herod. ii. 37, and then ‘‘eat” generally. The word, outside the Fourth Gospel (6°4 a/.), is found in the NT only in Mt 2438 ,ὔ τυγχάνω (the Lukan parallel 1727 here substitutes ἐσθίω) : cf. Sy// 805 (=* 1171)19 ἔδωκεν εὔζωμον νήστῃ τρώγειν. Other exx. are P Lond 121% (ili/A.p.) (=I. p. 89) ψυχρὰ τρώγοντα κατακαίεσθαι, and Preisigke 5730° (= P Bouriant 1150) a school-exercise of iv/v A.D. containing a saying of Diogenes who, when he saw a certain man eating (ἔσθοντα), remarked — νὺξ τὴν ἡμέραν τρώγει. There seems no good reason for assuming the survival of any difference in meaning between the two verbs that supplied a present stem for φαγεῖν : but see Haussleiter in Archiv fiir lat. Lexicographie ix. (18g6), p. 300ff. In MGr τρώ(γ)ω is the usual word for Sea tam In one of the Klepht ballads edited by Abbott Sozgs p. 22, the verb is used to denote security. The famous Andritsos, besieged in the great Monastery,™ ἔτρωγε κ᾽ ἔπινε, while his enemies stormed at the gate. For the comp. ἐπιτρώγω cf. P Oxy IX. 11851! (Ως. A.D. 200) παῖδα τὸν μεικρὸν Set ἄρτον ἐσθίειν, ἅλας ἐπιτρώγειν, ὀψαρίου μὴ θινγάνειν, ‘a little boy must eat bread, nibble besides some salt, and not tovch the sauce’’ (Ed.). For τραγήματα = ‘the dessert”? or δευτέρα τράπεζα (secunda mensa, bellaria), see Cagnat IV. 10008 (ii/B.C.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τρώγω (trōgō) — to eat. τρώγω, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: future τρώξομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist 1 ἔτρωξα (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist 2 ἔτρᾰγον, 3rd.pers. singular subjunctive τράγῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, perfect τέτρωγμαι (δια-) [Refs 5th c.BC+], (παρεν-) [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—gnaw, nibble, munch, especially of herbivorous animals, as mules, τ. ἄγρωστιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of swine, ἐρεβίνθους τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of cattle, τὸν θαλλόν, κόμαρον τ., [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; rarely of dogs, Εὐριπίδην ἔτρωγον [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of human beings in disease, λίθους τε καὶ γῆν τρώγουσι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. of men, eat vegetables or fruit, τοὺς γενομένους [κυάμους] οὔτε τρώγουσι οὔτε ἕψοντες πατέονται [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ κάτω [τῆς βύβλου[Refs 5th c.BC+]; of dessert, eat fruits, as figs, almonds, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴτρια, μελίπηκτα, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; of small fish as hors-d'oeuvres, κἀν ποίᾳ πόλει τοσοῦτος [ὢν] τὸ μέγεθος ἰχθῦς τρώγετα; [Refs 5th c.BC+] drink and eat dessert, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, τρώγεται ἁπαλὰ ταῦτα καὶ αὖα [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. later, simply eat, serving as present to ἔφαγον instead of ἐσθίω, ὁ τρώγων μου τὴν σάρκα καὶ πίνων μου τὸ αἷμα [LXX+NT] when cited in [NT]; δύο τρώγομεν ἀδελφοί is uncertain reading in [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἡ νὺξ τὴν ἡμέραν τ. (of a black man eating white bread) Diog.Cyn. cited in [Refs 4th c.AD+]; ψυχρὰ τρώγοντα κατακαίεσθαι [Refs]; this usage is mentioned by [Refs 9th c.AD+]