ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΑ, συμποσια
SYMPOSIA, symposia
Sounds Like: soom-po-SEE-ah
Translations: a drinking party, a banquet, a feast
From the root: ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a drinking party, a banquet, or a feast. It describes a social gathering, often involving food and drink, where people recline together. It is a compound word derived from 'σύν' (together with) and 'πόσις' (a drinking).
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine; or Plural, Nominative, Neuter; or Plural, Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4849 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:81
Codex Sinaiticus
- Mark — 6:39
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 3 Maccabees — 4:16
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Mark — 6:39
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΑΙΣ — (at) banquets, (at) dinner parties, (at) feasts
- ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΑΝ — a banquet, a feast, a drinking party, a company of drinkers
- ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΙΣ — (to) banquets, (at) banquets, (for) banquets, (to) feasts, (at) feasts, (for) feasts, (to) drinking parties, (at) drinking parties, (for) drinking parties
- ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ — banquet, a banquet, feast, a feast, drinking party, a drinking party
- ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΥ — of a drinking party, of a banquet, of a feast, of a symposium
- ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΩ — (to) a drinking party, (to) a banquet, (to) a feast
- ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΩΝ — of banquets, of drinking parties, of feasts
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