Lexical 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. |
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