χορτάζω
to feed
‘to feed’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 6 times (40%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5526 appears — 15 distinct verses across 7 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 4 verses
- Matthew 5:6 χορτασθήσονται fut pass ind 3pl Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, For they shall be filled.
- Matthew 14:20 ἐχορτάσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.
- Matthew 15:33 χορτάσαι aor act inf The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
- Matthew 15:37 ἐχορτάσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 6:42 ἐχορτάσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl They all ate, and were filled.
- Mark 7:27 χορτασθῆναι aor pass inf But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
- Mark 8:4 χορτάσαι aor act inf His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
- Mark 8:8 ἐχορτάσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 6:21 χορτασθήσεσθε fut pass ind 2pl Blessed are you who hunger now, For you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you will laugh.
- Luke 9:17 ἐχορτάσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
- Luke 16:21 χορτασθῆναι aor pass inf and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
John 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
James 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
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.
“to feed” is the headline sense of the Greek verb χορταζω (chortázō). Its English rendering has broadened — “were filled” classically, “were satisfied” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Greek New Testament uses it across 15 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Matthew. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. See the sense tree, 15-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5526 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 15 distinct verses.
- Gospels 12 verses · 80%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 20%
- Johannine 2 verses · 13%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 7%
- Revelation 1 verse · 7%
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: Were filled 6×, Filled 2×
- American Standard Version: Were filled 6×, Be filled 2×, Fill 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Were satisfied 5×, Feed 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were satisfied 5×, Be fed 2×, Be satisfied 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5526 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 G5526 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5526 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 G5526 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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 feed with herbs, grass, hay, to fill, satisfy with food, to fatten
- to fill or satisfy men
- to fulfil or satisfy the desire of any one
Word origin
Derived from χορτος (chórtos) (G5528) — grass.
From G5528 ; to fodder that is (genitive case) to gorge ( supply food in abundance): - feed fill satisfy.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G5526 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐχορτάσθησαν echortásthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 14:20 | 6 |
| χορτάσαι chortásai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Matthew 15:33 | 2 |
| χορτασθῆναι chortasthē̂nai | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive | Mark 7:27 | 2 |
| χορτάζεσθαι chortázesthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Philippians 4:12 | 1 |
| χορτάζεσθε chortázesthe | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | James 2:16 | 1 |
| χορτασθήσεσθε chortasthḗsesthe | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 6:21 | 1 |
| χορτασθήσονται chortasthḗsontai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 5:6 | 1 |
| ἐχορτάσθητε echortásthēte | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | John 6:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5526, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χορταζω appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 4 books.
- 13
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 13
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 38:27 χορτάζω
- Psalms 16:14 χορτάζω
- Jeremiah 5:7 χορτάζω
- Lamentations 3:15 χορτάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5526) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 38:27 χορτάζω To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?
- Psalms 16:14 χορτάζω
- Psalms 16:15 χορτάζω
- Psalms 36:19 χορτάζω
- Psalms 58:16 χορτάζω
- Psalms 80:17 χορτάζω Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, On the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
- Psalms 103:13 χορτάζω Like a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
- Psalms 103:16 χορτάζω For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
- Psalms 106:9 χορτάζω He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; So he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
- Psalms 131:15 χορτάζω
- Jeremiah 5:7 χορτάζω How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
- Lamentations 3:15 χορτάζω He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:30 χορτάζω Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5526) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
