trofas

Strong’sG5162

a nurse

stem trof-once in the New Testament1 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.

τροφός, -οῦ, ἡ

(< τρέφω), [in LXX: Ge 35:8, IV Ki 11:2, II Ch 22:11 Is 49:23 (מֵינֶקֶת) *;]

a nurse: I Th 2:7.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5162 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtrof-os'

a nourisher, i.e. nurse

Fromfrom G5142;

King Jamesnurse.

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

τροφός, ὁ
and ἡ, (τρέφω) feeder, rearer, Refs 8th c.BC+ and always feminine of a nurse, φίλη τ. Εὐρύκλεια LXX+5th c.BC+; of a mother, Refs 5th c.BC+ —The _masculine_ was usually τροφεύς (which see); but τροφός as masculine occurs in Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, of a city, Συράκοσαι, ἀνδρῶν ἵππων τε δαιμόνιαι τροφοί Refs 5th c.BC+; of Miletus, τ. τοῦ.. Ἀπόλλωνος Refs 4th c.AD+
3 in neuter, τὸ τροφόν that which nourishes, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 τροφός, ἡ, name of a plaster, Refs 4th c.AD+
II passive, nursling, τροφοί· ἀντὶ τοῦ θρέμματα (Meineke τροφαί), Refs 5th 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.

nursing mother1×

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	trofas1×τροφὸς	trofais
object accusative	trofan	trofain
direct address vocative	trofar	trofair
of, belonging to genitive	trofau	trofaiu
to, for dative	trofa	trofai

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

trofstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

trofa 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

trofas“nursing mother”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Thessalonians 2:7… ēpiois en mese vu, hōs ean trofas thalpateiō teim heautau tekneim;… were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.