Paropsis means “platter” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3953 — laqash (“gather”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3953 παροψίς (paropsis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paropsis (par-op-sis') n. 1. a side-dish (the receptacle) [from G3844 and the base of G3795] It has 3 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include platter. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
paropsis (par-op-sis') n. 1. a side-dish (the receptacle) [from G3844 and the base of G3795] KJV: platter Root(s): G3844, G3795
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3953. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
dish
Usage: παρ-οψίς, -ίδος, ἡ (παρά, ὄψον; see: ὀψάριον), __1. a side-dish of dainties (Xen., al.). __2. In Comic poets and late prose, the dish itself on which the dainties are served: Mat.23:25-26 (In this sense it is condemned by the Atticists; see Rutherford, NPhr., 265 f.)† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paropsis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3953 (παροψίς) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after a hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3953.
And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after a hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3953, grouped by book.
Paropsis (Strong's G3953) is a Greek word most simply glossed "platter". paropsis (par-op-sis') n. 1. a side-dish (the receptacle) [from G3844 and the base of G3795]
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G3953 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3953 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as platter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3953, with linked reader references where each row is available.
