χορτάζω

χορτάζω — chortázō

χορτάζω: 1 aorist ἐχόρτασα; 1 aorist passive, ἐχορτασθην; future passive, χορτασθήσομαι; (χόρτος, which see); first in Hesiod (Works, 450);

a. to feed with herbs, grass, hay, to fill or satisfy with food, to fatten; animals (so uniformly in the earlier Greek writings (cf. Lightfoot on Php 4:12; Winer's Grammar, 23)): ὄρνεα ἐκ τῶν σαρκῶν, passive, Rev 19:21 (here A. V. were filled).

b. in later (cf. Sturz, Dial. Maced. and Alex., p. 200ff) and Biblical Greek, to fill or satisfy men (the Sept. for שָׁבַע and הִשְׂבִּיעַ; with some degree of contempt in Plato, de rep. 9, p. 586 a. κεκυφοτες εἰς γῆν καί εἰς τραπέζας βοσκονται χορταζόμενοι καί ὀχευοντες). α. properly: τινα, Mat 15:33; passive, Mat 14:20; Mat 15:37; Mar 6:42; Mar 7:27; Mar 8:8; Luk 9:17; Joh 6:26; Jas 2:16; opposed to πεινᾶν, Php 4:12; τινα τίνος (like πίμπλημι (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 8 b.)): ἄρτων, with bread, Mar 8:4 (Psalm 131:15 ); τινα ἀπό with a genitive of the thing (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 12), passive, Luk 16:21 (Psa 103:13 ); (τινα ἐκ with the genitive of the thing (Buttmann, as above), passive, Luk 15:16 Tr marginal reading WH). β. metaphorically: τινα, to fulfill or satisfy the desire of anyone, Mat 5:6; Luk 6:21 (Psa 106:9 ).