Lexicon thélazó: to suckle Original Word: θηλάζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: thélazó Phonetic Spelling: (thay-lad'-zo) Short Definition: I give suck, suck Definition: (a) I give suck, (b) I suck. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2337 thēlázō – to nurse (suck milk). See 2338 (thēlys). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom thélé (a nipple) Definitionto suckle NASB Translationnursed (1), nursing babies (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2337: θηλάζωθηλάζω; 1 aorist ἐθήλασα; ( θηλή a breast (cf. Peile, Etym., p. 124f)); 1. transitive, to give the breast, give suck, to suckle: Matthew 24:19; Mark 13:17; Luke 21:23 (Lysias, Aristotle, others; the Sept. for הֵינִיק); μαστοί ἐθήλασαν, Luke 23:29 R G. 2. intransitive, to suck: Matthew 21:16 (Aristotle, Plato, Lucian, others; the Sept. for יָנַק); μαστούς, Luke 11:27; Job 3:12; Song of Solomon 8:1; Joel 2:16; Theocritus, 3:16.
Strong's to suckle, suck. From thele (the nipple); to suckle, (by implication) to suck -- (give) suck(-ling). |
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