διατρέφω
nourish, sustain
Where this word appears
Every passage where διατρέφω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 16 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 7:3 διατρέφω And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.
- Genesis 50:20 διατρέφω You⌃ took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and much people might be fed.
- Genesis 50:21 διατρέφω And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
- Joshua 14:10 διατρέφω And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
- Ruth 4:15 διατρέφω And he shall be to you a restorer of your soul, and one to cherish your old age; for your daughter-in-law which has loved you, who is better to you than seven sons, has born him.
- 2 Samuel 19:33 διατρέφω And the king said to Berzelli, You shall go over with me, and I will nourish your old age with me in Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 19:34 διατρέφω And Berzelli said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
- 2 Samuel 20:3 διατρέφω And David went into his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and he put them in a place of custody, and maintained them, and went not in to them; and they were kept living as widows, till the day of their death.
- 1 Kings 17:4 διατρέφω And it shall be that you shall drink water of the brook, and I will charge the ravens to feed you there.
- 1 Kings 17:9 διατρέφω Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian land: behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain you.
- 1 Kings 18:4 διατρέφω And it came to pass when Jezabel struck the prophets of the Lord, that Abdiu took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.
- Ezra 19:21 διατρέφω
- Psalms 30:4 διατρέφω You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender.
- Psalms 32:19 διατρέφω to deliver their souls from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
- Psalms 54:23 διατρέφω But you, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in you, O Lord.
- Proverbs 22:9 διατρέφω He that has pity on the poor shall himself be maintained; for he has given of his own bread to the poor. He that gives liberally secures victory an honor; but he takes away the life of them that posses them.
About this word
About this word
διατρέφω (diatréphō), “nourish, sustain,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 16 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →