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Chortazo is the Greek verb for being fed, filled, or satisfied. In the Gospels it can describe literal hunger answered by bread, but the contexts press readers to ask what kind of filling is being sought and who supplies it.
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Chortazo is the Greek verb for being fed, filled, or satisfied. In the Gospels it can describe literal hunger answered by bread, but the contexts press readers to ask what kind of filling is being sought and who supplies it.
The BSB source-word alignment has 15 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include were satisfied (5), to feed (2), gorged themselves (1), had your fill (1), have their fill (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 5:6. Its strongest book concentrations include Mark (4), Matthew (4), Luke (3), James (1).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Chortazo is the Greek verb for being fed, filled, or satisfied. In the Gospels it can describe literal hunger answered by bread, but the contexts press readers to ask what kind of filling is being sought and who supplies it. Jesus blesses those who hunger and thirst for righteousness because God Himself will fill them. The crowds eat until satisfied in the feeding signs, yet John 6 warns that a full stomach can still miss the sign's meaning.
The Syrophoenician woman hears the language of children being fed and persists in humble faith. Paul can be filled or hungry because contentment rests in Christ. Revelation even uses the verb for birds gorged at judgment. The word therefore teaches satisfaction by context: mercy, provision, contentment, and judgment are not the same filling.
Chortazo moves from bodily feeding to deeper questions of satisfaction. The New Testament uses the verb for righteousness longed for, crowds fed by Jesus, humble faith at the edge of Israel's table, contentment in need, and judgment scenes where appetite becomes a sign of defeat.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Jesus blesses hunger and thirst for righteousness because God will satisfy that longing. The verb therefore serves kingdom appetite before it serves ordinary comfort.
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
The feeding miracle gives bodily satisfaction to the crowd, but the leftover baskets keep the scene from being reduced to barely enough provision.
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it is not because you saw these signs that you are looking for Me, but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
Jesus exposes a search driven by loaves rather than signs, so being filled becomes a warning when physical satisfaction blinds people to the giver.
“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
Jesus' table-order language tests and draws out the woman's faith. The word should be read within the dialogue about mercy, priority, and humble persistence.
I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. In any and every situation I have learned the secret of being filled and being hungry, of having plenty and having need.
Paul has learned both being filled and being hungry, making satisfaction a matter of Christ-dependent contentment rather than stable circumstances.
And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
The birds are gorged after judgment, showing that the verb can mark defeat and not only blessing. Context decides whether filling is mercy or judgment.
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Greek word. To satisfy hunger by feeding; used metaphorically for spiritual fulfillment or contentment.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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How this verb appears across 15 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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χορτάζω is built from this root:
Demonstrates complete provision.
Expresses complete fulfillment through Christ’s provision.
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Chortazo teaches that satisfaction is not morally neutral. Matthew 5 names a hunger God blesses and fills. The feeding miracles show Jesus meeting real bodily need with abundance. John 6 warns that people can receive bread, feel full, and still fail to read the sign rightly. Mark 7 shows faith clinging to mercy even when table order is tested. Philippians 4 places fullness and hunger under the learned secret of Christ-sustained contentment.
Revelation 19 uses the same feeding language in a judgment scene, where appetite belongs to the aftermath of rebellion's defeat. A faithful word study therefore asks not only whether someone is filled, but by what, from whom, and toward what end. The gospel does not despise the body, but it also will not let the body become the measure of blessedness.
Matt.5.6
Chortazo often carries the sense of feeding to satisfaction, not merely offering a small portion. The surrounding object and scene decide whether the filling is bodily, moral, covenantal, or judicial.
Scripture moves from wilderness provision and table mercy to Christ feeding crowds and calling people to seek life beyond perishing bread. The final judgment scenes also show that appetite under rebellion ends in defeat. In Christ, true satisfaction is received as grace, ordered by righteousness, and freed from making fullness an idol.