θρέμμα, θρεμματος, τό (τρέφω), whatever is fed or nursed; hence: 1. a ward, nursling, child (Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, others). 2. a flock, cattle, especially sheep and goats: Joh_4:12. (Xenophon, oec. 20, 23; Plato, Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch, Lucian, Aelian, others.)

θρέμμα thremma 1x that which is reared (especially sheep and goats); pl. cattle, Joh_4:12

* θρέμμα , -τος , τό (τρέφω ); 1. a nurseling, esp . of animals ( Eur ., Plat ., al. ). 2. cattle: Joh_4:12 .†

θρέμμα [page 292] For this NT ἅπ . εἰρ . ( Joh_4:12 ) = cattle (AV, RV) we may cite P Oxy II. 246 .16 (A.D. 66) ἀπεγραψάμην . . . ἀπὸ γ [ο ]νῆς ὧν ἔχω θρεμμάτω [ν ] ἄρνας δέκα δύο , I registered twelve lambs which were born from sheep in my possession (Edd. : BGU III. 759 .11 (A.D. 125) ἐπελθόντες μοι . . . ποιμαίνοντι θρέμματα Ἀνουβίωνος , P Amh II. 134 .5 (early ii/A.D.) Πετ̣έα ὄντα ἐν ἀγρῷ μετὰ τῶν θρεμμάτων νυκτὸς ἀποσπάσαι , to seize Peteus by night while he was in the fields with the cattle (Edd.), and from the inscrr. Syll 293 .26 (B.C. 178 7) ποτάγειν τὰ ἰδιωτικὰ θρέμματα , OGIS 200 .11 (iv/A.D.) αὐτοὺς ἤγαγον πρὸς ἡμᾶς μετὰ καὶ τῶν θρεμμάτων αὐτῶν . With θρέμμα in its literal sense of nursling we may compare the use of θρεπτάριον in a Paris papyrus, p. 422 .18 τὰ ἀβάσκαντά σου θρεπτάρια , tes charmants petits nourrissons, and θρεπτός = foster-child in P Oxy II. 298 .5, .46 (i/A.D.), or foundling as in C. and B. i. p. 147 No.37 (cf. p. 350), where it is noted that θρέμμα has the same meaning.

θρέμμα θρέμμα, ατος, τό, [Etym: τρέφω] "a nursling, creature", of sheep and goats, Xen. , Plat. of men, Soph. , etc. of wild beasts, id=Soph. as a term of reproach, "a creature", θρέμματ᾽ οὐκ ἀνασχετά Aesch. ; ὦ θρέμμ᾽ ἀναιδές Soph. ὕδρας θρ., periphr. for ὕδρα, id=Soph.

θρέμμα, -τος, τό (τρέφω) __1. a nurseling, esp. of animals (Eur., Plat., al.). __2. cattle: Jhn.4:12.† (AS)