2001 Translation

SYMPOSION, symposion

Sounds Like: soom-POH-see-on

Translations: banquet, a banquet, feast, a feast, drinking party, a drinking party

From the root: ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a banquet or a drinking party, often implying a social gathering where people eat, drink, and converse. It can be used to describe any formal or informal gathering centered around food and drink. The word is a compound of the preposition 'σύν' (syn), meaning 'with' or 'together', and 'πόσις' (posis), meaning 'a drinking'.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G4849 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:181, 1:202, 1:294

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 4:17x
• 1 Maccabees — 16:16

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 8:314
• Book 11 — 6:187, 6:190, 6:192, 6:193
• Book 12 — 2:99, 6:187
• Book 20 — 10:240

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 12:9

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Esther — 4:17
• 1 Maccabees — 16:16
• 2 Maccabees — 2:27
• 3 Maccabees — 5:36, 6:33

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.

• ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΑ — a drinking party, a banquet, a feast
• 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
• 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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