Lexical Summary kōmos: a village festival, revel Original Word: κῶμοςTransliteration: kōmos Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-mos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a village festival, revel Meaning: a village festival, revel Strong's Concordance reveling, rioting. From keimai; a carousal (as if letting loose) -- revelling, rioting. see GREEK keimai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2970: κῶμοςκῶμος, κωμου, ὁ (from κεῖμαι; accordingly equivalent to German Gelag; cf. Curtius, § 45); from (Homer h. Merc., Theognis) Herodotus down; a revel, carousal, i. e. in the Greek writings properly, a nocturnal and riotous procession of half-drunken and frolicsome fellows who after supper parade through the streets with torches and music in honor of Bacchus or some other deity, and sing and play before the houses of their male and female friends; hence, used generally, of feasts and drinking-parties that are protracted till late at night and indulge in revelry; plural (revellings): Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:21; 1 Peter 4:3. (Wis. 14:23; 2 Macc. 6:4.) (Trench, § lxi.) |
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