Words the Bible translates as nourish
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kulכּוּלto provide for and keep someone alive: to supply food and support so a person or people can survive.
+3 more meanings
- to contain or hold a quantity: to have room enough to keep something inside.
- to bear up under something overwhelming: to be able to endure or withstand it.
- to measure out a quantity: to gauge how much something amounts to.
- trephōτρέφωto keep a living thing alive and growing by supplying its food: to feed, and so also to support, nurse, raise, or fatten
- ektrephōἐκτρέφωto nourish/rearnot studied yet
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