King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER G3953
Transliteration: paropsis
Phonetic Spelling: (par-op-sis')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a side dish of delicacies
Meaning: a side dish of delicacies
παροψίς, παροψίδος, ἡ (παρά (which see IV. 1), and ὄψον, on which see ὀψάριον);
Word Summary
paropsis: a side dish of delicacies
Original Word: παροψίςTransliteration: paropsis
Phonetic Spelling: (par-op-sis')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a side dish of delicacies
Meaning: a side dish of delicacies
Strong's Concordance
platter. From para and the base of opsarion; a side-dish (the receptacle) -- platter.
see GREEK para
see GREEK opsarion
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3953: παροψίςπαροψίς, παροψίδος, ἡ (παρά (which see IV. 1), and ὄψον, on which see ὀψάριον);
1. "a side-dish, a dish of dainties or choice food suited not so much to satisfy as to gratify the appetite; a side-accompaniment of the more solid food"; hence, equivalent to παροψημα; so in Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 4 and many Attic writings in Athen. 9, p. 367 d. following
2. the dish itself in which the delicacies are served up: Matthew 23:25, 26 (here T omits; WH brackets παροψίδος); Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 74; Alciphron 3, 20; Plutarch, de vitand. aere alien. § 2. This latter use of the word is condemned by the Atticists; cf. Sturz, Lex. Xenophon, iii., 463f; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 176; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 265f); Poppo on Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 4.