Topic
Nourish
17 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 45:11ISBE
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
- Genesis 47:12ISBE
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
- Genesis 50:21ISBE
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
- 2 Samuel 12:3ISBE
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
- Isaiah 1:2ISBE
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
- Isaiah 7:21ISBE
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
- Isaiah 23:4ISBE
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
- Isaiah 44:14ISBE
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
- Ezekiel 19:2ISBE
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
- Daniel 1:5ISBE
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
- Acts 7:20ISBE
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
- Acts 7:21ISBE
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
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- Acts 12:20 ISBE
- Ephesians 5:29 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 4:6 ISBE
- James 5:5 ISBE
- Revelation 12:14 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 17 references
nur'-ish (giddel, chiyyah, kilkel, ribbah; trepho, anatrepho, ektrepho, entrepho): While the word "nourish" was ordinarily an appropriate rendering in the time of the King James Version, the word has since become much less frequent, and some senses have largely passed out of ordinary use, so that the meaning would now in most cases be better expressed by some other word. Giddel means "to bring up," "rear (children)" (Isa 1:2, margin "made great"; Isa 23:4; Da 1:5); "cause (a tree) to grow" (Isa 44:14). Chiyyah means "to preserve alive" (with some implication of care) (2Sa 12:3; Isa 7:21, the American Standard Revised Version "keep alive"). Kilkal means "to support," "maintain" "provide for" (especially with food) (Ge 45:11; 47:12; 50:21). Ribbah means "to bring up," "rear (whelps)," in a figurative use Eze 19:2). Trepho means "to feed" (transitively) (Ac 12:20, the Revised Version (British and American) "feed"; Re 12:14); "to fatten" (Jas 5:5, the context indicating an unfavorable meaning). Anatrepho is "to bring up," "rear," like giddel (Ac 7:20,21); ektrepho is "to take care of" (Eph 5:29); entrepho means "to bring up in," "train in" (1Ti 4:6).
George Ricker Berry
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.