noun · feminine
dochas
Strong’sG1403
a reception, party
stem doch-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δοχή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< δέχομαι), [in LXX: Ge 21:8, Es 1:3, al. (מִשְׁתֶּה), Da LXX 5:1 (לְחֶם);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1403 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddokh-ay'
a reception, i.e. convivial entertainment
Fromfrom G1209;
King Jamesfeast.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={δοχεῖον}, receptacle, Refs 5th c.BC+
II reception, entertainment, NT+3rd c.BC+; ={ἄριστον}, Refs 5th c.AD+
III σημεῖον ἐν θυτικῇ, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dochas | dochais |
| object accusative | dochan2×δοχὴν | dochain |
| direct address vocative | dochar | dochair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dochau | dochaiu |
| to, for dative | docha | dochai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
docha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
dochan“banquet”objectaccusative singular2×
Luke 5:29Kai poiata dochan megan Leuisos auto en ta oikia …Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A …
Luke 14:13alla hotan dochan poiaseiō, kalasōr ptōchoin, anapēroin, chōloin, tufloin;But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the …