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πότος

pótos · G4224 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. orgy, revelling, carousing

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

    Examples

    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
κῶμος kōmos · G2970 · orgy, revelling, carousing
πότος and κῶμος both denote excessive festive drinking — a drinking party or bout of revelry. They name the same behavioral category within New Testament vice lists.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Orgy, revelling, carousing88.287
The noun names a drinking party or carousal, listed among the excesses of the former Gentile life. Peter's exhortation to abandon such a past uses this term: “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” (1 Peter 4:3).
Word family 10 words

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

πίνω pínō · G4095 · to drink, drinking, to absorb · 73×ποτήριον potḗrion · G4221 · cup, to cause someone not to experience, to take the cup from · 31×πόθεν póthen · G4159 · from where? whence? where?, how, in what manner · 29×ποτίζω potízō · G4222 · to give to drink, to water, to irrigate · 15×καταπίνω katapínō · G2666 · to swallow, to destroy, to ruin completely · 7×πόσις pósis · G4213 · a drink, drinking · 3×πόμα póma · G4188 · a drink · 2×συμπόσιον sympósion · G4849 · a group eating together · 2×πότοςpótos · G4224συμπίνω sympínō · G4844 · to drink together · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πότου, ὁ (ΠΟΩ (cf. πίνω)), a drinking, carousing: 1 Pet 4:3. (Xenophon, Plato,…
πότου, ὁ (ΠΟΩ (cf. πίνω)), a drinking, carousing: 1 Pet 4:3. (Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, others; the Sept. for מִשְׁתֶּה.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Drunkenness1 occurrence

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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