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the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34

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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #2160 - εὐτραπελία

Transliteration

eutrapelía

Phonetics

yoo-trap-el-ee'-ah

Origin

from a compound of (G2095) and a derivative of the base of (G5157) (meaning well-turned, i.e. ready at repartee, jocose)

Parts of Speech

feminine noun

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

pleasantry, humour, facetiousness
in a bad sense
1. scurrility, ribaldry, low jesting

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Ephesians 1

BSB (1)

Ephesians 1

CSB (1)

Ephesians 1

ESV (1)

Ephesians 1

KJV (1)

Ephesians 1

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

Ephesians 2

N95 (2)

Ephesians 2

NAS (2)

Ephesians 2

NLT (2)

Ephesians 2

WEB (1)

Ephesians 1

YLT (1)

Ephesians 1

ASV (1)

jesting 1

BSB (1)

crude joking 1

CSB (1)

joking 1

ESV (1)

crude joking 1

KJV (1)

jesting 1

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

coarse 1

jesting 1

N95 (2)

coarse 1

jesting 1

NAS (2)

joking 1

vulgar 1

NLT (2)

jokes 2

WEB (1)

jesting 1

YLT (1)

jesting 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-NSF 1

ANT

N-NSF 1

BEZ

N-NSF 1

BGB

N-NSF 1

BMT

N-NSF 1

BYZ

N-NSF 1

ELZ

N-NSF 1

NA26

N-NSF 1

SBL

N-NSF 1

SCV

N-NSF 1

STV

N-NSF 1

TIS

N-NSF 1

TRG

N-NSF 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

εὐτρᾰπελ-ία, ἡ,

1. ready wit, liveliness, Hp. Decent. 7, Pl. R. 563a, Posidipp. 28.5, Cic. Fam. 7.32.1, D.S. 15.6: pl., pleasantries, Demetr. Eloc. 177; defined by Arist. as πεπαιδευμένη ὕβρις, Rh. 1389b11, cf. EN 1108a24; ἡ περὶ τὰς παιδιὰς καὶ τὰς ὁμιλίας εὐ. Plu. Ant. 43.

2. rarely in bad sense, = βωμολοχία, Ephesians 5:4.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

εὐτραπελία, ἐυτραπελιας, ἡ (from εὐτράπελος, from εὖ, and τρέπω to turn: easily turning; nimble-witted, witty, sharp), pleasantry, humor, facetiousness ((Hippocrates), Plato, rep. 8, p. 563a.; Diodorus 15, 6; 20, 63; Josephus, Antiquities 12, 4, 3; Plutarch, others); in a bad sense, scurrility, ribaldry, low jesting (in which there is some acuteness): Ephesians 5:4; in a milder sense, Aristotle, eth. 2, 7, 13; (ἡ εὐτραπελία πεπαιδευμενη ὕβρις ἐστιν, rhet. 2, 12, 16 (cf. Cope, in the place cited); cf. Trench, § xxxiv.; Matt. Arnold, Irish Essays etc., p. 187ff (Speech at Eton) 1882).

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

* εὐτραπελία , -ας , ἡ

(< εὖ , τρέπω ),

1. versatility, wit, facetiousness (Hippocr., Plat., al.).

2. = βωμολογία , coarse jesting, ribaldry (Abbott, Essays, 93): Ephesians 5:4.†

SYN.: μωρολογία , v. Tr., Syn., § xxxiv.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

For this word in a good sense we may cite Demetr. de Elocut. 177 (ed. Roberts) ἡ γὰρ Ἀττικὴ γλῶσσα συνεστραμμένον τι ἔχει καὶ δημοτικὸν καὶ ταῖς τοιαύταις εὐτραπελίαις πρέπον, ";the Attic dialect has about it something terse, and popular, and so lends itself naturally to the pleasantries of the stage"; : cf. the adj. ib. 172 ἡ γὰρ ἀντίθεσις εὐτράπελος, ";there being wit in a play on words."; The simplex *τράπελος is not found, but is vouched for by the Lat. torculus also = ";turning,"; but applied in a different way : see Brugmann-Thumb, p. 231.

List of Word Forms

ευτραπελια ευτραπελία εὐτραπελία eutrapelia eutrapelía