1) to eat
2) to eat (consume) a thing
2a) to take food, eat a meal
3) metaphorically to devour, consume
Part of Speech: verb
Citing in TDNT: 2:689, 262
G2068
Strengthened for a primary word ἔδω edô (to eat); used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by G5315; to eat (usually literally): - devour, eat, live.
| Gloss | Section |
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| b destroy | 20.44 |
| a eat | 23.1 |
| (τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἄρτον ἐσθίω) earn a living | 57.190 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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