φᾰγεῖν G5315
Eat, consume food — the aorist form of the verb for eating, covering literal meals, figurative consumption, and eschatological feasting
Phagein is the aorist infinitive (from the defective verb whose present is esthio) used throughout the New Testament for the act of eating. It appears in accounts of everyday meals, miraculous feedings (Matt 14:16, 20; 15:32-38), controversies over what is lawful to eat (Matt 12:4; Mark 2:26), and invitations to eschatological feasting ('that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom,' Luke 22:30). Jesus' own eating with sinners and tax collectors becomes a hallmark of his ministry (Matt 9:11; Luke 15:2). Spanish 'comer,' French 'manger,' and German 'essen' all render this basic human action straightforwardly.
Senses
1. eat, consume food — To eat or consume food, used of literal eating across all grammatical forms — indicative, subjunctive, imperative, infinitive, future, and participial. The 93 occurrences span ordinary meals, miraculous feedings (Matt 14:16, 20; Mark 6:37), disputes over lawful food (Matt 12:4; Mark 7:3-5), fasting and its breaking, and eschatological banqueting (Luke 22:30; Rev 2:7). Spanish 'comer,' French 'manger,' and German 'essen' all render the action simply, though in the Gospels the act of eating frequently becomes a locus of theological controversy — who eats, with whom, and what. 93×
AR["أَن-يَأكُلَ", "أَن-يُؤكَلَ", "أَنْ يَأْكُلوا", "أَنْ-آكُلَ", "الأَكْلُ", "لِآكُلَ", "لِتَأكُلَ", "لِتَأْكُلَ", "لِلأَكْلِ", "لِنَأْكُلَ", "لِيَأْكُلوا", "لِيَأْكُلَ", "لِيَأْكُلُوا"]·ben["খাওয়া", "খেতে", "খেতে।", "খেতেও"]·DE["essen", "isst"]·EN["to-eat"]·FR["manger"]·heb["לֶאֱכֹל"]·HI["उनके-पास", "कुछ", "खअन", "खन", "खने-को", "खाना", "खाने", "खाने,", "खाने-की", "खाने-को", "खाने-को?", "खाने-को।", "खाने?", "दो-सौ"]·ID["dimakan", "makan", "makan.", "untuk-dimakan", "untuk-dimakan,", "untuk-dimakan?", "untuk-makan"]·IT["mangiare"]·jav["dhahar", "mangan.", "nedha", "nedha,", "nedha.", "nedha?"]·KO["먹기는", "먹기를", "먹는-것은", "먹도록", "먹으려고", "먹을", "먹을-것-을", "먹을-것을", "먹을-것을.", "먹을-것을?"]·PT["comer", "comer.", "de-comer", "de-comer.", "para-comer", "para-comer,", "para-comer?"]·RU["есть", "поесть"]·ES["a-comer", "comer", "de-comer", "para-comer"]·SW["cha-kula", "chakula.", "kula", "kula,", "kula."]·TR["caizdir", "yemek", "yemek.", "yemeleri-için", "yememiz-için", "yemeye", "yemeyi", "yesinler", "yiyecek"]·urd["کھانا", "کھانے", "کھانے-کو"]
Matt 12:4, Matt 12:4, Matt 14:16, Matt 14:20, Matt 15:20, Matt 15:37, Matt 25:35, Matt 25:42, Matt 26:17, Mark 2:26, Mark 3:20, Mark 5:43 (+38 more)
Related Senses
H7200 1. Qal: to see, perceive (1257×)G4771 2. you (singular address) (1077×)H8085 1. Qal: hear, perceive aurally (921×)H0859a 1. you (2nd person masculine singular pronoun) (743×)H0398 1. eat (consume food) (697×)H4191 1. die (Qal: natural/general death) (645×)G3708 1. see, perceive visually (419×)G0191 1. hear, perceive sound (360×)H???? 3. (352×)G3708 2. behold, look (exclamatory) (256×)H7272 1. foot (body part) (236×)H8354 1. drink, consume liquid (209×)H3205 1. Qal active: bear/give birth (female subject) (204×)H3205 2. Qal active: beget/father (male subject) (198×)H2421 1. Qal: live, be alive (177×)H8085 2. Qal: listen, heed, pay attention (172×)H2416a 1. alive, living (state/attribute) (146×)H2416e 1. life, lifespan, lifetime (145×)G2198 1. be alive, have life (133×)H8193 1. lip, lips (body part) (123×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
φᾰγεῖν, infinitive of ἔφαγον, with no present in use (except in late Gr., φαγεῖ Refs; φαγέοις in editions of Refs 1st c.AD+, used as aorist 2 of ἐσθί; later 1st pers. plural ἐφάγαμεν LXXfuture is φάγομαι,LXX+NT; 2nd pers. singular φάγεσαι LXX+NT; future φαγήσω is see uncertain in Refs 4th c.AD+:—eat, devour, both of men and beasts, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+: with genitive, eat of a thing,…