τρώγω
to chew
‘to chew’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 5 times (83%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5176 appears — 6 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
John 5 verses
- John 6:54 τρώγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:56 τρώγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
- John 6:57 τρώγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
- John 6:58 τρώγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
- John 13:18 τρώγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb τρωγω centers on the idea of “to chew.” The word gravitates to John (83%), then Matthew. It turns up in 6 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 24:38. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5176 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 100%
- Johannine 5 verses · 83%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: He that eateth 4×
- American Standard Version: He that eateth 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eats 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eating 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5176 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5176 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5176 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5176 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to gnaw, crunch, chew raw vegetables or fruits (as nuts, almonds)
- to eat
Word origin
Derived from τραυμα (traûma) (G5134) — wound.
Probably strengthened from a collateral form of the base of G5134 and G5147 through the idea of corrosion or wear ; or perhaps rather of a base of G5167 and G5149 through the idea of a craunching sound; to gnaw or chew that is (genitive case) to eat : - eat.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5176 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τρώγων trṓgōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 6:54 | 5 |
| τρώγοντες trṓgontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:38 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5176, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
