# G5142 τρέφω

τρέφω (tréphō), Strong’s G5142: but perhaps strengthened from the base of G5157 (τροπή) through the idea of convolution); properly, to stiffen, i.e. fatten (by implication, to cherish… KJV: bring up…

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*tréphō* — but perhaps strengthened from the base of G5157 (τροπή) through the idea of convolution); properly, to stiffen, i.e. fatten (by implication, to cherish…

KJV: bring up, feed, nourish

Occurs 21 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 6:26](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=26) — See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds…
- [Matthew 25:37](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/25?v=37) — “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a…
- [Luke 4:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/4?v=16) — He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath…
- [Luke 12:24](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=24) — Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more…
- [Acts 12:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/12?v=20) — Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him and, having made Blastus…
- [Jacob 5:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/5?v=5) — You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
- [Revelation 12:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/12?v=6) — The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand…
- [Tobit 14:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/tobit/14?v=10) — Bury me decently, and your mother with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my child, what Aman did to Achiacharus who…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=26) — that your children, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn that it is not the growth of crops that nourishes a man, but…
- [Baruch 4:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/baruch/4?v=11) — For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning.