Word

συμπόσιον

sympósion · G4849 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. a group eating together

    A group of persons engaged in eating together

    Examples

    Mark 6:39 And He ordered them all to recline by groups on the green grass.

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
κλισία klisía · G2828 · a group eating together
συμπόσιον and κλισία both denote an organized group of people at a meal. συμπόσιον emphasizes the shared meal or symposium itself, while κλισία emphasizes the reclining posture of the diners; both name the same kind of dining company, differing in aspectual emphasis.
Semantic domains 1 entry
A group eating together11.5
Mark records that Jesus “ordered them all to recline by groups on the green grass” (Mark 6:39).
Word family 10 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon συμποσίου, τό (συμπίνω), a drinking-party, entertainment (Latinconvivium); by metonymy,…
συμποσίου, τό (συμπίνω), a drinking-party, entertainment (Latinconvivium); by metonymy, the party itself, the guests (Plutarch, mor., p. 157 a.; 704d.); plural rows of guests: συμπόσια συμπόσια, Hebraistically for κατά συμπόσια, in parties, by companies ((Buttmann, 30 (27); § 129 a. 3; Winers Grammar, 229 (214); 464 (432)); see πρασιά), Mk 6:39.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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