noun · masculine
trofimos
Strong’sG5161
Trophimus
stem trofim-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Τρόφιμος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5161 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtrof'-ee-mos
nutritive; Trophimus, a Christian
Fromfrom G5160;
King JamesTrophimus.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ος, η, ον, see infr.:— nourishing, nutritious, γάλα -ώτατον Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to ἄτροφος, Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. κλυστῆρες nutritive enemata, Lycusap. Refs 4th c.AD+
II substantive τρόφιμος, ὁ, a slave's young master, ὁ τ. σου Refs 4th c.BC+; rendered erilis filius by Ter.Refs 3rd c.AD+the mistress, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 neuter τρόφιμον, τό, maintenance, sustenance, Refs 1st c.AD+; τ. δουλικόν Refs 1st c.AD+: esp. food-supply of Alexandria, Refs 6th c.AD+ contract for board, Refs 6th c.AD+
III passive, nursling, foster-child, παῖς τ. τίνο; Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ τ., frequently in Inscrr., Refs 4th c.AD+; τ. ἀδελφός Refs 3rd c.AD+; feminine τροφίμη Refs 4th c.AD+our nurslings, pupils, Refs 5th c.BC+ and brought up as companions of the richer class, who paid for them, Refs 5th c.BC+ dogs kept in the house, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III.2 of bodies, healthy, strong, well-nourished, Refs 5th c.BC+; of plants, flourishing, luxuriant, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.3 τ. κύημα viable, capable of life, opposed to ἀνεμιαῖον, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | trofimos1×Τρόφιμος | trofimois |
| object accusative | trofimon2×Τρόφιμον | trofimoin |
| direct address vocative | trofimor | trofimoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | trofimou | trofimoiu |
| to, for dative | trofimo | trofimoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
trofimo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
trofimos“Trophimus”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 20:4… kai Timotheos, Asianois de Tuchikos kai Trofimos;… from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
trofimon“Trophimus”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 21:29ale gar proorarēntois Trofimon ton Efesion en ta pola sun …For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the …
2 Timothy 4:20Erastosos menata en Korintha, Trofimon de apolipama en Milēta asthenarōnton.Erastus has remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left sick in Miletus.