noun · feminine
kraipalas
Strong’sG2897
drunken dissipation
stem kraipal-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.
* κραιπάλη
(κρεπάλη, WH), -ης, ἡ (cf. κραιπαλάω for שׁכר, Is 24:20 29:9),
SYN.: κῶμος, revelling; μέθη, drunkeness; οἰνοφλυγία, a debauch; πότος, a drinking bout (v. Tr., Syn., § lxi).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2897 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkrahee-pal'-ay
properly, a headache (as a seizure of pain) from drunkenness, i.e. (by implication) a debauch (by analogy, a glut)
Fromprobably from the same as G726;
King Jamessurfeiting.
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
drinking-bout, ἐκ κραιπάλης NT+5th c.BC+
2 intoxication, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 drunken headache, 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 | kraipalas | kraipalais |
| object accusative | kraipalan | kraipalain |
| direct address vocative | kraipalar | kraipalair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kraipalau | kraipalaiu |
| to, for dative | kraipala1×κραιπάλῃ | kraipalai |
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
kraipala 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
kraipala“dissipation”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 21:34… mēpote barileia vu tais kardiais en kraipala kai metha kai merimnai biōtikai, kai …… hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life …