Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to eat
Usage: βιβρώσκω, poët, and late prose, [in LXX for אכל ;] to eat: Jhn.6:13.† (AS)
Bibrosko means “eat” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H977 — bachar (“acceptable”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G977 βιβρώσκω (bibrosko) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. bibrosko (bib-ro'-sko) v. 1. to eat [a reduplicated and prolonged form of an obsolete primary verb (perhaps causative of G1006)] It has 44 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include eaten, flesh, day, said, and figs. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
bibrosko (bib-ro'-sko) v. 1. to eat [a reduplicated and prolonged form of an obsolete primary verb (perhaps causative of G1006)] KJV: eat Root(s): G1006
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to eat
Usage: βιβρώσκω, poët, and late prose, [in LXX for אכל ;] to eat: Jhn.6:13.† (AS)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
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 G977 (βιβρώσκω) appears 42 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.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
37 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
In one house shall it be eaten, and ye shall not carry of the flesh out from the house; and a bone of it ye shall not break.
And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.
And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And Moses said, Because the sin offering was not to be eaten, it was consumed.
And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast into the dark.
And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
First 44 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G977.
In one house shall it be eaten, and ye shall not carry of the flesh out from the house; and a bone of it ye shall not break.
And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.
And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
And if aught be left of the flesh of the sacrifice of consecration and of the loaves until the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, for it is a holy thing.
And Aaron and his sons shall eat that which is left of it: it shall be eaten without leaven in a holy place, they shall eat it in the court of the tabernacle of witness.
And every sacrifice of a priest shall be thoroughly burned, and shall not be eaten.
The priest that offers it shall eat it: in a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of witness.
And no offerings for sin, of whose blood there shall be brought any into the tabernacle of witness to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten: they shall be burned with fire.
And the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering of praise shall be his, and it shall be eaten in the day in which it is offered: they shall not leave of it till the morning.
And if it be a vow, or he offer his gift of his own will, on whatsoever day he shall offer his sacrifice, it shall be eaten, and on the morrow.
And whatsoever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; everyone that is clean shall eat the flesh.
And the fat of such animals as have died of themselves, or have been seized of beasts, may be employed for any work; but it shall not be eaten for food.
And these are the things which ye shall abhor of birds, and they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the ossifrage, and the sea eagle.
And every reptile that creeps on the earth, this shall be an abomination to you; it shall not be eaten.
In what day soever ye shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the following day, and if any of it should be left till the third day, it shall be thoroughly burned with fire.
And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall not be accepted.
And whenever ye shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit tree, then shall ye purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten.
In that same day it shall be eaten; ye shall not leave of the flesh till the morrow: I am the Lord.
Take diligent heed that thou eat no blood, for blood is the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the flesh.
In this day the manna failed, after they had eaten of the corn of the land, and the children of Israel no longer had manna; and they took the fruits of the land of the Phoenicians in that year.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
are the loaves—we took them hot for our journey on the day on which we came out to come to you; and now they are dried and become moldy.
And he said to them, Meat came forth of the eater, And sweetness out of the strong: and they could not tell the riddle for three days.
And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and he ate, and his spirit was restored in him; for he had not eaten bread, and had not drunk water three days and three nights.
And I have seen foolish ones taking root: But suddenly their habitation was devoured.
Shall bread be eaten without salt? Or again, is there taste in empty words?
Let the soles of his feet be devoured: And death shall consume his beauty.
And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.
for I will not be wroth with you forever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you.
For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, so shall they be consumed; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation for all generations.
The one basket was full of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was full of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for their badness.
And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for their badness.
And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.
Therefore all that devour thee shall be eaten, and all thine enemies shall eat all their own flesh. Thy sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine iniquities, therefore they have done these things to thee. And they that spoil thee shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered thee.
Then I said, Not so, Lord God of Israel: surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness; nor have I eaten that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.
and if he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,
For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
And Moses said, Because the sin offering was not to be eaten, it was consumed.
And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast into the dark.
And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G977, grouped by book.
Bibrosko (Strong's G977) is a Greek word most simply glossed "eat". bibrosko (bib-ro'-sko) v. 1. to eat [a reduplicated and prolonged form of an obsolete primary verb (perhaps causative of G1006)]
This page currently indexes 44 linked usages for Strong's G977 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G977 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 eaten, flesh, day, said, figs, and lord. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 37 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G977, with linked reader references where each row is available.