noun · masculine
kōmos
Strong’sG2970
a feasting, reveling
stem kōm-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
** κῶμος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: Wi 14:23, II Mac 6:4*;]
SYN.: v.s. κραιπάλη.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2970 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidko'-mos
a carousal (as if letting loose)
Fromfrom G2749;
King Jamesrevelling, rioting.
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
revel, carousal, merry-making, εἰς δαῖτα θάλειαν καὶ χορὸν ἱμερόεντα καὶ ἐς φιλοκυδέα κ. Refs 6th c.BC+; ἐν κώμῳ εἶναι, of a city, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially in honour of gods, τοῖς ἐν ἄστει Διονυσίοις ἡ πομπὴ.. καὶ ὁ κ. Legal cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; κώμῳ θυραμάχοις τε πυγμαχίαισι Pratin.Lyric poetry 1.8; χοροῖς ἢ κώμοις Ὑακίνθου Refs 5th c.BC+
2 concrete, band of revellers, κ. εὐίου θεοῦ Refs; especially of the procession which celebrated a victor in games, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, rout, band, κ. Ἐρινύων Refs 4th c.BC+; of an army, κ. ἀναυλότατος Refs 5th c.BC+; band of hunters, Refs; of maidens, Refs; of doves, Refs
II the ode sung at one of these festive processions, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | kōmos | kōmois1×κῶμοι |
| object accusative | kōmon | kōmoin |
| direct address vocative | kōmor | kōmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kōmou | kōmoiu |
| to, for dative | kōmo | kōmoi2×κώμοις |
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
kōmo 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
kōmois“carousing”subjectnominative plural1×
Galatians 5:21“carousing”fthonois, methais, kōmois, kai teim homoieim houtei, heim prolegamō …and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn …
kōmoi“orgies”to, fordative plural2×
Romans 13:13hōs en hēmera euschēmonōs peripataneia, mē kōmoi kai methai, mē koitai kai aselgeiai, …… as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality …
1 Peter 4:3… katergazorē, poreuorēntoin en aselgeiai, epithumiai, oinoflugiai, kōmoi, potoi, kai athemitai eidōlolatriai.… Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.