Strong's Lexicon

G5159

G5159 — τροποφορέω

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreektropophoreoverbOccurrences: 1

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G5159
Word:τροποφορέω
Part of Speech:verb
Etymology:from G5158 and G5409
Language:Greek
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:tropophoreo
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:trop-of-or-eh'-o
Meaning:1. to endure one's habits
KJV Renderings:suffer the manners

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

τροποφορέω, τροποφόρω: 1 aorist ἐτροποφόρησα; (from τρόπος, and φέρω to bear); to bear one’s manners, endure our’s character: τινα, Act 13:18 R Tr text WH (see their Appendix at the passage), after manuscripts à B etc.; Vulg.mores eorum sustinuit; (Cicero, ad Attic. 13, 29; Schol. on Aristophanes ran. 1432; the Sept. Deu 1:31 Vat.; (Origen in Jer. 248; Apostolic Constitutions 7, 36 (p. 219, 19 edition, Lagarde))); see τροφοφορέω.

STRONGS NT 5159: τροφοφορέωτροφοφορέω, τροφοφόρω: 1 aorist ἐτροφοφόρησα; (τροφός and φέρω); to bear like a nurse or mother, i. e. to take the most anxious and tender care of: τινα, Act 13:18 G L T Tr marginal reading (R. V. marginal reading bear as a nursing-father) (Deu 1:31, the Alex. manuscript, etc.; 2Ma 7:27; Macarius, hom. 46, 3 and other ecclesiastical writings); see τροποφορέω.

Englishman's Greek Concordance

τροποφορέω (suffer the manners)

Acts 13:18

KJV: And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness
GK: και ως τεσσαρακονταετή χρόνον ετροποφόρησεν αυτούς εν τη ερήμω
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