Quick Definition
τροφός, οῦ, ἡ n.f. a nurse
Strong's Definition
a nourisher, i.e. nurse
Derivation: from G5142 (τρέφω);
KJV Usage: nurse
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τροφός, -ov, 7, (τρέφω ; see τροφή), a nurse: 1 Th. ii. 7. (From Hom. down; for ΠΡ2Ὁ, Gen. xxxv. 8; 2 K. xi. 25 Is. xlix. 23:))
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τροφός trophos 1x
a nurse, 1 Thess. 2:7*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
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.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τροφός. For ἡ τροφός, which Paul uses with such effect in 1 Thess 27 (cf. LXX Gen 358, a/.), note P Lond 951 zerso} (late iii/A.D.) (= III. p. 213) where, with reference to a newly arrived infant the father-in-law or mother-in-law decrees— τ]ὸ βρέφος ἐχέτω τροφόν: ἐγὼ yap οὐκ ἐπιτρέπω τῇ θυγατρί μου θηλάζειν. Cf. P Flor Il. 1792 (a.p. 263) “Hpaid. γενομένῃ τροφῷ ἀπόλυσον οἴνου δίχωρα δύο, and from the inscrr. BCH xviii. (1894), Ρ- 145 (B.C. 240). In Kabel 2477 (i/ii A.D.) τροφός = μήτηρ, but in PedagiaLegenden p. 231° ἡ δὲ Πελαγία κάτω κύψασα ἐχωρίσθη τῆς ἑαυτοῦ τροφοῦ, the meaning must be simply “nurse” from the contrasted μήτηρ in the next line. For a good ex. of a συγγραφὴ tpoditis or a contract entered into with the nurse (cf. Avchiv i. p. 123) to supply her with the necessary τροφεῖα, see BGU IV. 1106 and the Tpvyaw documents which follow: also P Oxy I. 371:10 (a.p. 49) (= Selections, p. 49) ἐγένετο ἐνθάδε ἡ τροφεῖτις εἰς υἱὸν (cf. Ac γ51, Heb 1°) τοῦ ΠΠεσούριος. τοῦ πρώτου ἐνιαυτοῦ ἀπέλαβεν τὰ τροφεῖα. The Hellenistic τροφέω, which Phrynichus (ed. Lobeck, p- 589) views with such suspicion, is found in BGU III. 8594 (1i/A.D,) ἐϊἸτρόφησεν kal ἐτιθήνησεν ἡ τοῦ ᾿Αμμωνίου δούλη Δημητροῦς, and 35 (cf. Radermacher Gr. p. 84f.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τροφός (trophos) — nursing mother. 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+]
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