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κῶμος

kōmos · G2970 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. orgy, revelling, carousing

    Drinking parties involving unrestrained indulgence in alcoholic beverages and accompanying immoral behavior

    Examples

    Romans 13:13 Let’s behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and debauchery, not in strife and jealousy.

    Galatians 5:21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

    1 Peter 4:3 For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of indecent behavior, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
πότος pótos · G4224 · orgy, revelling, carousing
Both terms denote festive drinking excess — an orgy or carousal — converging on the identical sense of revelry. Though each is only thinly attested, the underlying convergence in meaning is real and specific.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Orgy, revelling, carousing88.287
κῶμος names a carousal marked by drunken revelry. Galatians 5:21 lists among the deeds of the flesh “envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God,” the κῶμοι naming this carousing among the deeds that exclude one from the kingdom.
Word family 17 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κεῖμαι keîmai · G2749 · to lie, to recline, to be · 24×κώμη kṓmē · G2968 · village, the people there, the people of a village · 27×κοιμάω koimáō · G2837 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep · 18×ἀνακεῖμαι anakeîmai · G345 · to recline, to eat, to be at table · 14×κατάκειμαι katákeimai · G2621 · to lie, lying down, to recline · 12×ἀντίκειμαι antíkeimai · G480 · to oppose, to be hostile toward, to show hostility · 8×ἐπίκειμαι epíkeimai · G1945 · to be on, to lie on, to press against · 7×συνανάκειμαι synanákeimai · G4873 · to eat together, to associate in a meal · 7×περίκειμαι períkeimai · G4029 · to be around, to surround, to be placed around · 5×πρόκειμαι prókeimai · G4295 · to exist openly, to exist clearly, to exist later · 5×ἀπόκειμαι apókeimai · G606 · to store, to put away in a place, to exist · 4×κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life · 4×κῶμοςkōmos · G2970παράκειμαι parákeimai · G3873 · to be present, to be here, to be there · 2×κοίμησις koímēsis · G2838 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep · 1×κοιτών koitṓn · G2846 · bedroom · 1×κωμόπολις kōmópolis · G2969 · town, market town · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κωμου, ὁ (from κεῖμαι; accordingly equivalent to German Gelag; cf. Curtius, § 45); from…
κωμου, ὁ (from κεῖμαι; accordingly equivalent to German Gelag; cf. Curtius, § 45); from (Homer h. Merc., Theognis) Herodotus down; a revel, carousal, i. e. in the Greek writings properly, a nocturnal and riotous procession of half-drunken and frolicsome fellows who after supper parade through the streets with torches and music in honor of Bacchus or some other deity, and sing and play before the houses of their male and female friends; hence, used generally, of feasts and drinking-parties that are protracted till late at night and indulge in revelry; plural (revellings): Rom 13:13; Gal 5:21; 1 Pet 4:3. (Wis. 14:23; 2 Macc. 6:4.) (Trench, § lxi.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Drunkenness3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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