Lexicon masaomai: to chew Original Word: μασσάομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: masaomai Phonetic Spelling: (mas-sah'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I bite, gnaw Definition: I bite, gnaw, chew. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitionto chew NASB Translationgnawed (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3145: μασσάομαιμασσάομαι ( R G) more correctly μασάομαι ( L T Tr WH): imperfect 3 person plural ἐμασῶντο; ( ΜΑΩ μάσσω, to knead); to chew, consume, eat, devour ( κρέας, Aristophanes, Plutarch, 321; τά δέρματα τῶν θυρεων, Josephus, b. j. 6, 3, 3; ῤίζας ξύλων, the Sept. Job 30:4, and other examples in other authors): ἐμασῶντο τάς γλώσσας αὐτῶν, they gnawed their tongues (for pain), Revelation 16:10.
Strong's gnaw. From a primary masso (to handle or squeeze); to chew -- gnaw. |
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