trophē · food

What it means

trophē (τροφή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “food”.

Nourishment.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one eats to live and have strength.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Luke×1
• John×1
• Acts×7
• Hebrews×2
• James×1

• Matthew 3:4

  Now John himself had his clothing made of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

• Matthew 6:25

  “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

• Matthew 10:10

  no bag for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the worker is worthy of his food.

• Matthew 24:45

  Who, then, is the faithful and wise slave whom the master has put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?

• Luke 12:23

  For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

• John 4:8

  For his disciples had gone away into the town to buy food.

• Acts 2:46

  And every day continuing with one mind in the temple and breaking bread at home, they shared food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

• Acts 9:19

  And taking food, he regained strength. And he was for some days with the disciples in Damascus.

• Acts 14:17

  and yet he did not leave himself without testimony, doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

• Acts 27:33

  And until day was about to dawn, Paul kept urging everyone to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued waiting and without food, having taken nothing.

• Acts 27:34

  Therefore I urge you to take food, for this is for your salvation; for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”

• Acts 27:36

  And all, becoming encouraged, also took food themselves.

• Acts 27:38

  And when they had eaten their fill of food, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

• Hebrews 5:12

  For indeed, though you ought to be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and you have become people needing milk, not solid food.

• Hebrews 5:14

  But solid food is for the mature, those who because of practice have their faculties trained for distinguishing good and evil.

• James 2:15

  If a brother or a sister is naked and lacking daily food,