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|strgr=[[probably]] strengthened from a collateral [[form]] of the [[base]] of [[τραῦμα]] and [[τρίβος]] [[through]] the [[idea]] of corrosion or [[wear]]; or [[perhaps]] [[rather]] of a [[base]] of [[τρυγών]] and [[τρίζω]] [[through]] the [[idea]] of a craunching [[sound]]; to [[gnaw]] or [[chew]], i.e. ([[generally]]) to [[eat]]: [[eat]].
|strgr=[[probably]] strengthened from a collateral [[form]] of the [[base]] of [[τραῦμα]] and [[τρίβος]] [[through]] the [[idea]] of corrosion or [[wear]]; or [[perhaps]] [[rather]] of a [[base]] of [[τρυγών]] and [[τρίζω]] [[through]] the [[idea]] of a craunching [[sound]]; to [[gnaw]] or [[chew]], i.e. ([[generally]]) to [[eat]]: [[eat]].
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|txtha=to [[gnaw]], [[crunch]], [[chew]] [[raw]] vegetables or fruits (as nuts, almonds, etc.): ἄγρωστιν, of mules, [[Homer]], [[Odyssey]] 6,90, and [[often]] in [[other]] writers of animals [[feeding]]; [[also]] of men from [[Herodotus]] [[down]] (as σῦκα, [[Herodotus]] 1,71; [[βότρυς]], [[Aristophanes]] eqq. 1077; blackberries, the Epistle of Barnabas 7,8 [ET] ([[where]] [[see]] Harnack, Cunningham, Müller); [[κρόμυον]], [[μετά]] [[δεῖπνον]], [[Xenophon]], conv. 4,8); [[universally]], to [[eat]]: [[absolutely]], ([[δύο]] τρώγομεν ἀδελφοί, we [[mess]] [[together]], [[Polybius]] 32,9, 9) joined [[with]] πίνειν, [[Demosthenes]], p. 402,21; [[Plutarch]], symp. 1,1, 2; Ev. Nicod. c. 15, p. 640, Thilo edition (p. 251 Tdf. edition)); [[τόν]] ἄρτον, [[ἄρτος]] 2and [[ἐσθίω]] b.); [[figuratively]], [[τήν]] σάρκα, the '[[flesh]]' of Christ ([[see]] [[σάρξ]], 1), John 6:54,56f.
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