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Dissipation

κραιπάληStrong’s G2897

kraipalē

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Kraipalē is the Greek word usually translated “dissipation”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”
Luke 21:34 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “dissipation”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • dissipation 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    κραιπάλη kraipalē · dissipation

    κραιπάλη (κρεπάλη, WH), -ης, ἡ (cf. κραιπαλάω for שִׁכּוֹר, Isa.24:20 29:9) drunken nausea (EV, surfeiting): Luk.21:34.† SYN.: κῶμος, revelling; μέθη, drunkeness; οἰνοφλυγία, a debauch; πότος, a drinking bout (see Tr., Syn., § lxi). (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “dissipation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    DISSIPATION, noun

    1. The act of scattering; dispersion; the state of being dispersed; as the dissipation of vapor or heat.
    2. In physics, the insensible loss or waste of the minute parts of a body, which fly off, by which means the body is diminished or consumed.
    3. Scattered attention; or that which diverts and calls off the mind from any subject.
    4. A dissolute, irregular course of life; a wandering from object to object in pursuit of pleasure; a course of life usually attended with careless and exorbitant expenditure of money, and indulgence in vices, which impair or ruin both health and fortune.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.