Orgy
κῶμοςStrong’s G2970kōmos
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kōmos is the Greek word usually translated “reveling”, “carousing” and “orgies”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”
Meaning
Usually translated “reveling”, “carousing” and “orgies”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- in reveling 1
- carousing 1
- in orgies 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 1
- Galatians 1
- 1 Peter 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- 1 Peter 4:3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Greek dictionary
κῶμος kōmos · orgy
κῶμος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Wis.14:23, 2Ma.6:4 * ;] a revel, carousal: Rom.13:13, Gal.5:21, 1Pe.4:3.† SYN.: see: κραιπάλη (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “revel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REV'EL, verb intransitive
[Latin rabo, rabio, to rage, whence rabies, rabid.]
- To feast with loose and clamorous merriment; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian.
- To move playfully or without regularity.
All definitions and other forms of “revel”
REV'EL, noun
A feast with loose and noisy jollity.
REVEL', verb transitive
[Latin revello; re and vello, to pull.]
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.