Chortasma means “sustenance” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5527 — cekakah (“Secacah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5527 χόρτασμα (chortasma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. chortasma (khor'-tas-mah) n. 1. forage, i.e. food [from G5526] It has 9 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include sustenance. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
chortasma (khor'-tas-mah) n. 1. forage, i.e. food [from G5526] KJV: sustenance Root(s): G5526
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5527. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
food
Usage: χόρτασμα, -τος, τό (χορτάζω), [in LXX: Gen.24:25, 32 42:27 43:24, Jdg.19:19 (מִסְפּוֹא), Deu.11:16 (עֶשֶׂב), (Sir.33:24) Sir.38:26 * ;] fodder (Polyb., Plut., al.): pl., Act.7:11 (RV, sustenance).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chortasma, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. 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.
Strong's G5527 (χόρτασμα) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And she said to him, We have both straw and much provender, and a place for resting.
And the man entered into the house, and unloaded the camels, and gave the camels straw and provender, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were with him.
And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
He giveth his mind to make furrows; And is diligent to give the kine fodder.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5527.
And she said to him, We have both straw and much provender, and a place for resting.
And the man entered into the house, and unloaded the camels, and gave the camels straw and provender, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were with him.
And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack.
And he brought water to wash their feet; and gave provender to their asses.
And he shall give food in thy fields to thy cattle; and when thou hast eaten and art full,
Yet is there straw and food for our asses, and bread and wine for me and my handmaid and the young man with thy servants; there is no want of anything.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
He giveth his mind to make furrows; And is diligent to give the kine fodder.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5527, grouped by book.
Chortasma (Strong's G5527) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sustenance". chortasma (khor'-tas-mah) n. 1. forage, i.e. food [from G5526]
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G5527 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5527 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sustenance. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5527, with linked reader references where each row is available.