Quick Definition
φάγω v. I eat
Strong's Definition
a primary verb (used as an alternate of 2068 in certain tenses); to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: eat, meat
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | fut. φάγομαι · aor. ἔφαγον · inf. φαγεῖν | κατεσθίω · συνεσθίω
23.1 · Physiological Processes and States · Eat, Drink
to eat, to drink, to consume food, to use food to consume food, usually solids, but also liquids As noted in the contexts of MAT 12:1 and 1CO 9:7, ἐσθίω[a] is generic in the sense that it includes the consumption of both solid foods and liquids, but ἐσθίω is not employed in referring to the drinking of alcoholic beverages (see μεθύω[b] to drink freely of wine or beer, 23.37).
In some languages an important distinction is made in terms for ‘eating’ depending upon whether the eating is done by an adult or by a very small child, who in most instances must be helped to eat. Other distinctions in terminology for eating may involve the quantities of food (whether small or extensive), the rapidity with which one eats (gulping or mincing), the state of what is eaten (raw, fresh, cooked) or the type of food, for example, meat, cereal, fruit, or leafy vegetable.
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20.44 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Destroy
to destroy, to consume (a figurative extension of meaning of ἐσθίω[a] ‘to eat,’ 23.1) to destroy, with the implication of doing away with all traces of an object
57.190 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Earn, Gain, Do Business
Collocation: τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἄρτον ἐσθίω
to earn a living, to earn a livelihood (an idiom, literally: to eat one’s own bread) to earn a living by one’s own efforts
1 In some languages a very fundamental distinction is made between terms referring to the consumption of solid foods in contrast with liquids (either beverages or soups). For the most part, however, a term meaning ‘eat’ is more generic than one meaning ‘drink,’ since the former is frequently employed to describe the consumption of any type of nourishment, while a term meaning ‘drink’ refers only to beverages or very thin soups or broths. Still further important distinctions are made in some languages between the consumption of so-called ‘cold foods’ and ‘hot foods.’ This distinction is not, however, based upon the temperature of the food itself but upon the physiological effect which such foods are supposed to have upon the body in causing coolness or heat. A further important distinction may be made with respect to terms referring to animals eating in contrast with humans eating.
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐσθίω esthiō 158x
to eat, Mt. 12:1; 15:27; ἐσθίειν καὶ πίνειν, to eat and drink, to eat and drink in the usual manner, follow the common mode of living, Mt. 11:18; also with the associated notion of supposed security, Lk. 17:27; to feast, banquet, Mt. 24:49; met. to devour, consume, Heb. 10:27; Jas. 5:3; from the Hebrew, ἄρτον ἐσθίειν, to eat bread, to take food, take the usual meals, Mt. 15:2
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
φάγομαι Hellenistic for cl. ἔδομαι, v.s. ἐσθίω.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐσθίω. P Giss I. 808 (ii/A.p.) τὰ [π]εριστερίδι[α καὶ ὀ]ρνυθάρια, ἃ οὐκ ἤωθα ἐσϑεῖν (1. ἐσθίειν), πέμ[ψον .. -, 25.19 ὅσα ποτὲ οὐκ ἔφαγον παρὰ σοῦ ἀφοσεστια (/. ἀφέστια 2), P Oxy IX. 118 519 (c. A.D. 200) παῖδα τὸν μεικρὸν δεῖ ἄρτον ἐσθίειν, and 76. X. 1297! (iv/A-D.) προ. εἰνάριον ἐλαίου, ἀνικαλύψαι (4 ἀνα-) αὐτὸν καὶ φάγαι, “fa . . . of oil for you to uncover and eat °—so the editors, who for the form φάγαι compare P Tor I. τ (p.c. 117) μετῆλθαι, BGU I. 2508 (time of Hadrian) ἐπενέγκαι. See also Sy// 807"* (after a.D. 138) ἄραι κόκκους στροβίλου καὶ φαγεῖν μετὰ μέλιτος ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας. On the constative force of φαγεῖν as distinguished from the durative ἐσθίειν cf. Proleg. p. 111, and for φάγομαι as an Hellenistic mixture of ἔδομαι and ἔφαγον cf. 24. p. 184 η8. MGr φαγί, “eating,” ‘‘repast.” Thumb (Hed/entsmus, p. 128 n.?) doubts the necessity of finding a Hebraism in ἐσθίειν ἀπό (Mk 7°8).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φαγεῖν (phagein) — to eat. φᾰγεῖν, infinitive of ἔφαγον, with no present in use (except in late Gr., φαγεῖ [Refs]; φαγέοις in editions of [Refs 1st c.AD+], used as aorist 2 of ἐσθί; later 1st pers. plural ἐφάγαμεν [LXX]future is φάγομαι,[LXX+NT]; 2nd pers. singular φάγεσαι [LXX+NT]; future φαγήσω is see uncertain in [Refs 4th c.AD+]:—eat, devour, both of men and beasts, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with genitive, eat of a thing, [LXX+8th c.BC+]
II. eat up, devour, squander, [Refs 8th c.BC+] and Sanskrit bhájati 'apportion, (middle) enjoy'.)