eutrapelias

Strong’sG2160

low jesting, ribaldry

stem eutrapeli-once 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.

* εὐτραπελία, -ας, ἡ

(< εὖ, τρέπω),

1. versatility, wit, facetiousness (Hippocr., Plat., al.).

2. = βωμολογία, coarse jesting, ribaldry (Abbott, Essays, 93): Eph 5:4.†

SYN.: μωρολογία, v. Tr., Syn., § xxxiv

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2160 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidyoo-trap-el-ee'-ah

witticism, i.e. (in a vulgar sense) ribaldry

Fromfrom a compound of G2095 and a derivative of the base of G5157 (meaning well-turned, i.e. ready at repartee, jocose);

King Jamesjesting.

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

εὐτρᾰπελ-ία, ἡ,
ready wit, liveliness, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, pleasantries, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ περὶ τὰς παιδιὰς καὶ τὰς ὁμιλίας εὐ. Refs 1st c.AD+
2 rarely in bad sense, ={βωμολοχία}, NT

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.

coarse jesting1×

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	eutrapelias1×εὐτραπελία	eutrapeliais
object accusative	eutrapelian	eutrapeliain
direct address vocative	eutrapeliar	eutrapeliair
of, belonging to genitive	eutrapeliau	eutrapeliaiu
to, for dative	eutrapelia	eutrapeliai

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

eutrapelistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

eutrapelia 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

eutrapelias“coarse jesting”subjectnominative singular1×

Ephesians 5:4“coarse jesting”kai aischrotas kai mōrologias ē eutrapelias, heim ouk anēkate, alla mallon eucharistias.… be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.