BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G5176
trōgō — to eat
τρώγω 1. prop., of animals, to gnaw, munch, crunch (Hom., al.). 2. Of men, to eat raw food, as vegetables, nuts, etc. (Hdt., al.). 3. In late vernacular, simply to eat (= ἐσθίω): Mat.24:38, Jhn.6:54, 56-58 13:18 (LXX ἐσθίων) (see Kennedy, Sources, 82, 155; MM, xxv).† (AS)
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H93
e.goz — nut
nuts
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H992
bo.ten — pistachio
pistachio nuts-delicacy given to Joseph by Jacob through his sons
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H993
be.to.nim — Betonim
§ Betonim = "pistachio nuts" a city east of the Jordan in territory of Gad
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6871
diarriptō — to scatter
1. to cast or shoot through , (Odyssey by Homer) 2. to cast or throw about , a dog, to wag the tail, (Xenophon Historicus) 3. to throw about , as nuts or money among a crowd, (Aristophanes Comicus) 4. intransitive to plunge , (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7814
karuon — a walnut
any kind of nut , (Aristophanes Comicus); distinguished into various kinds, as κ. βασιλικά or Περσικά, walnuts , also called simply κάρυα, (Batrachomyomachia); κ. κασταναϊκά or κασταναῖα chestnuts , etc. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Were among the presents Jacob sent into Egypt for the purpose of conciliating Joseph (Gen. 43:11). This was the fruit of the pistachio tree, which resembles the sumac. It is of the size of an olive. In Cant. 6:11 a different Hebrew word (‘egoz), which means “walnuts,” is used.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
