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Strong's G2337 θηλάζω (thelazo)

Thelazo means “suckle” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2337 — chavach (“thicket”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2337
Language Greek
Linked Usages 33
Books 19

Strong's G2337 Quick Answer

Strong's G2337 θηλάζω (thelazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. thelazo (thay-lad'-zo) v. 1. to suckle, (by implication) to suck [from thele (the nipple)] It has 33 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include suck and sucked. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
thelazo (thay-lad'-zo) v. 1. to suckle, (by implication) to suck [from thele (the nipple)]
Usage
33 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
suck and sucked

Meaning and Definition

thelazo (thay-lad'-zo) v. 1. to suckle, (by implication) to suck [from thele (the nipple)] KJV: (give) suck(-ling)

Original Word
θηλάζω
Transliteration
thelazo
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2337. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to suckle

Usage: θηλάζω (θηλή, a breast), [in LXX chiefly for יָנַק hi. ;] __1. of the mother, to suckle: Mat.24:19, Mrk.13:17, Luk.21:23. __2. Of the young, to suck: Mat.21:16; μαστούς, Luk.11:27 (cf. Job.3:12, Sng.8:1, al.).† (AS)

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How Strong's G2337 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render thelazo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

suck Matthew 24:19 sucked Luke 11:27

How Strong's G2337 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 24 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2337 (θηλάζω) appears 28 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2337 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2337 in the New Testament

6 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 21:16 KJV

And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Matthew 24:19 KJV

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Mark 13:17 KJV

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Strong's G2337 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

24 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 21:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And she said, Who shall say to Abraham that Sarah suckles a child? for I have born a child in my old age.

Genesis 32:16 Septuagint / Brenton

milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.

Exodus 2:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, Take care of this child, and suckle it for me, and I will give thee the wages; and the woman took the child, and suckled it.

Strong's G2337 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 16:4 Septuagint / Brenton

Assyria came out of the mountains from the north, He came with ten thousands of his army, The multitude whereof stopped the torrents, And their horsemen have covered the hills.

2 Maccabees 7:27 Septuagint / Brenton

But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spoke in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.

Strong's G2337 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 99:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them, And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

Usage Excerpts

First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2337.

Genesis 21:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she said, Who shall say to Abraham that Sarah suckles a child? for I have born a child in my old age.
Genesis 32:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.
Exodus 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, Take care of this child, and suckle it for me, and I will give thee the wages; and the woman took the child, and suckled it.
Numbers 11:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou sworest to their fathers?
Deuteronomy 32:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He brought them up on the strength of the land; He fed them with the fruits of the fields; They sucked honey out of the rock, And oil out of the solid rock.
Deuteronomy 32:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, And terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; The young man shall perish with the virgin, The suckling with him who has grown old.
Deuteronomy 33:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall utterly destroy the nations, and ye shall call men there, And there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; For the wealth of the sea shall suckle thee, And so shall the marts of them that dwell by the seacoast.
1 Kingdoms 1:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do that which is good in thine eyes, abide still until thou shalt have weaned him; but may the Lord establish that which comes out of thy mouth: and the woman tarried, and suckled her son until she had weaned him.
1 Kingdoms 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now go, and thou shalt smite Amalek and Hierim and all that belongs to him, and thou shalt not save anything of him alive, but thou shalt utterly destroy him: and thou shalt devote him and all his to destruction, and thou shalt spare nothing belonging to him; and thou shalt slay both man and woman, and infant and suckling, and calf and sheep, and camel and ass.
1 Kingdoms 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he smote Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both man and woman, infant and suckling, and calf, and ox, and sheep.
3 Kingdoms 3:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.
3 Kingdoms 3:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other.
Job 3:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts?
Job 20:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let him suck the poison of serpents, And let the serpent’s tongue slay him.
Psalms 8:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise, Because of thine enemies; That thou mightest put down the enemy and avenger.
Song of Solomon 8:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; When I found thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, they should not despise me.
Isaiah 60:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt eat the wealth of kings: and shalt know that I am the Lord that saves thee and delivers thee, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 66:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.
Jeremiah 51:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit these great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Judah, to the end that not one of you should be left;
Lamentations 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eyes have failed with tears, My heart is troubled, My glory is cast down to the ground, For the destruction of the daughter of my people; While the infant and suckling swoon In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, O Lord, And see for whom thou hast gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? The cook has made a gathering: Shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? Wilt thou slay the priest and prophet In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, They give suck to their young, The daughters of my people are incurably cruel, As an ostrich in a desert.
Lamentations 4:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The tongue of the sucking child Cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: The little children ask for bread, And there is none to break it to them.
Joel 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Matthew 21:16 New Testament, KJV
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Matthew 24:19 New Testament, KJV
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mark 13:17 New Testament, KJV
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 11:27 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Luke 21:23 New Testament, KJV
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Luke 23:29 New Testament, KJV
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Judith 16:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Assyria came out of the mountains from the north, He came with ten thousands of his army, The multitude whereof stopped the torrents, And their horsemen have covered the hills.
2 Maccabees 7:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spoke in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.
1 Enoch 99:5 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them, And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2337, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2337 FAQ

What does thelazo (θηλάζω) mean?

Thelazo (Strong's G2337) is a Greek word most simply glossed "suckle". thelazo (thay-lad'-zo) v. 1. to suckle, (by implication) to suck [from thele (the nipple)]

How many times is thelazo (θηλάζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's G2337 across 19 books.

Where can I study thelazo (θηλάζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2337 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate thelazo (θηλάζω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as suck and sucked. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2337 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 24 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2337, with linked reader references where each row is available.