noun · neuter
sumposiem
Strong’sG4849
a drinking party, festive company
stem sumposi-2 times in the New Testament0 of 6 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.
συμπόσιον, -ου, τό
(< συμπίνω), [in LXX: Es 7:7 (מִשְׁתֶּה יַיִן) 4:17, I Mac 16:16, II Mac 2:27, III Mac 4:16 5:36 6:33; σ. οἴνου, Sir 34 (31):31 35 (32):5, 49:1 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4849 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoom-pos'-ee-on
a drinking-party ("symposium"), i.e. (by extension) a room of guests
Fromneuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4844;
King Jamescompany.
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-party, symposium, Refs 7th c.BC+; σ. κατασκευάσαι, φίλοις παρασχεῖν, συνάγειν, Refs 5th c.BC+
II the party itself, the guests, LXX+1st c.AD+; ἀνακλιθῆναι.. συμπόσια συμπόσια in groups, NT
III the room in which such parties were given, τοῦ σ. στέγη Refs 3rd c.BC+; σαίρειν τὸ σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 or object direct | sumposiem | sumposieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sumposieu | sumposieiu |
| to, for dative | sumposie | sumposiei |
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
sumposie 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
sumposieim2×
Mark 6:39“* group …”kai epitassata autoi anaklinara pantoin sumposieim sumposieim epi to chlōro chorto.Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
Mark 6:39“* by group”kai epitassata autoi anaklinara pantoin sumposieim sumposieim epi to chlōro chorto.Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.