Strong's G4849: συμπόσιον (sympósion) Meaning

Quick Definition

συμπόσιον, ου, τό n.n. a drinking party, festive company

Strong's Definition

a drinking-party ("symposium"), i.e. (by extension) a room of guests

Derivation: neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4844 (συμπίνω);

KJV Usage: company

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

συμπόσιον (G4849)

noun, n. | -ου | πίνω

11.5 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · General

a group eating together a group of persons engaged in eating together Note that Luke employs κλισίας in essentially the same type of context in which Mark uses συμπόσια.

MRK 6:39 · MRK 6:39

¹ MRK 6:39 · MRK 6:39 In MRK 6:39 MRK 6:39 the repetition of συμπόσια indicates a distributive plural, in other words, a series of groups distributed over an area. Note the same kind of distributive plural in connection with πρασιαί in MRK 6:40 MRK 6:40 (see 11.6).

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

συμπόσιον, -ov, τό, (συμπίνω), a drinking-party, entertainment, (Lat. convivium); by meton. the party uself, the guests, (Plut. mor. p. 157 a.; 704d.); plur. rows of guests: συμπόσια συμπύσια, Hebraistically for κατὰ συμπόσια, in parties, by companies, ([Β. 30 (27); 8.129 ἃ. 35 W. 229 (214); 464 (432)]; see πρασιά), ΜΚ. vi. 39.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

συμπόσιον symposion 2x

a drinking together; a feast, banquet; a festive company; in NT, pl. συμπόσια, eating party, Mk. 6:39 (2x)*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

συμπόσιον Neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4844

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

συμπόσιον, orig. ‘‘a drinking party,’’ ‘‘a banquet,” e.g. Predsighe 1106° (Ptol.) ot συνπόσιον γευόμενοι φιλαγαθίας ἕνεκεν τῆς εἰς ἑαυτούς. From this itis an easy transition to the ‘‘room”’ in which the party was given (Hesych, : συμπόσιον" τόπος εὐωχίας Kal πόσεως) : cf. P Ryl 11. 233° (ii/A.p.) τοῦ μεικροῦ συμποσίου, ‘the small dining-room,” P Oxy VIII. 112814 (A.D. 173), the lease at a rent of 20 drachmae per annum of a dining-room and the store-chamber within it— τὸ συμπόσιον Kal τὴν ἐντὸς αὐτοῦ κέλλαν, 10. 1. 761% (A.D. 179) συμπόσιον καὶ κοιτῶνα, and 16. VIII. 115959 (late iii/A.p.) ἔνεγκον τὸ τυλάριον τ[ὸ] παλαιὸν τὸ ἐν τῷ συμποσίῳ ἄνω, “bring the old cushion that is up in the dining-room "’ (Ed.). In P Flor I. 57 (a.p. 244-5) συμπόσιον ὑπερῷον, συμπόσιον appears to be used as an adj. In Mk 689 συμπόσια συμπόσια the word is extended to the ‘‘companies”’ of diners: the construction can no longer be regarded as Hebraistic, see Pro/eg. p. 97.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

συμπόσιον (sumposion) — common meal. συμπόσι-ον, τό, 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+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

1. a drinking-party, symposium , (Theognis Elegiacus), etc. 2. the room in which such parties were given, drinking-room , (Lucian) (ML)

Bible Occurrences (1)

6:39

G4849 συμπόσιον (sympósion)