◄ 1035. brósis ►
Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1035: βρῶσις βρῶσις, βρώσεως, ἡ (βρόω, βιβρώσκω); 1. the act of eating (Tertullian esus): βρῶσις καί πόσις, Romans 14:17 (on which see βασιλεία, 3); with the genitive of the object 1 Corinthians 8:4 (Plato, de rep. 10, p. 619 c. παίδων αὐτοῦ); in a wider sense, corrosion: Matthew 6:19f. 2. as almost everywhere in Greek writings that which is eaten, food, aliment: Hebrews 12:16; εἰς βρῶσιν for food, 2 Corinthians 9:10 (Wis. 4:5); βρῶσις καί (so WH text Tr marginal reading; others ἤ) πόσις, Colossians 2:16 (Homer, Odyssey 1, 191; Plato, legg. 6, 783{c}; Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 15; (cf. Fritzsche on Romans iii., p. 200 note; per contra Meyer or Ellicott on Colossians, the passage cited)), used of the soups aliment — either that which refreshes it, John 4:32, or nourishes and supports it unto life eternal, John 6:27, 55. Forms and Transliterations βρώμα βρωσει βρώσει βρωσεως βρώσεως βρωσιν βρώσιν βρῶσιν βρωσις βρώσις βρῶσις βρωτόν brosei brōsei brṓsei broseos brōseōs brṓseos brṓseōs brosin brôsin brōsin brō̂sin brosis brôsis brōsis brō̂sis Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts