Word Summary
paroinos: given to wine, drunken
Original Word: πάροινοςTransliteration: paroinos
Phonetic Spelling: (par'-oy-nos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: given to wine, drunken
Meaning: given to wine, drunken
Strong's Concordance
drunken, given to wine.
From para and oinos; staying near wine, i.e. Tippling (a toper) -- given to wine.
see GREEK para
see GREEK oinos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3943: πάροινοςπάροινος,
πάροινον, a later Greek word for the earlier
παροίνιος (
παρά (which see IV. 1) and
οἶνος, one who sits long at his wine),
given to wine, drunken:
1 Timothy 3:3;
Titus 1:7; (others give it the secondary sense, 'quarrelsome over wine'; hence,
brawling, abusive).