2337. thélazó
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thélazó: to suckle
Original Word: θηλάζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: thélazó
Phonetic Spelling: (thay-lad'-zo)
Short Definition: I give suck, suck
Definition: (a) I give suck, (b) I suck.

HELPS word-Studies

Cognate: 2337 thēlázō – to nurse (suck milk). See 2338 (thēlys).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from thélé (a nipple)
Definition
to suckle
NASB Translation
nursed (1), nursing babies (4).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 2337: θηλάζω

θηλάζω; 1 aorist ἐθήλασα; (θηλή a breast (cf. Peile, Etym., p. 124f));

1. transitive, to give the breast, give suck, to suckle: Matthew 24:19; Mark 13:17; Luke 21:23 (Lysias, Aristotle, others; the Sept. for הֵינִיק); μαστοί ἐθήλασαν, Luke 23:29 R G.

2. intransitive, to suck: Matthew 21:16 (Aristotle, Plato, Lucian, others; the Sept. for יָנַק); μαστούς, Luke 11:27; Job 3:12; Song of Solomon 8:1; Joel 2:16; Theocritus, 3:16.



Strong's
to suckle, suck.

From thele (the nipple); to suckle, (by implication) to suck -- (give) suck(-ling).

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