G4764: στρῆνος
strēnos · “luxury”
Definition
a "straining", "strenuousness" or "strength", i.e. (figuratively) luxury (voluptuousness)
KJV translates it as: delicacy
Word origin: akin to G4731 (στερεός);
Extended definition
στρῆνος, -ους, τό
(cf. Lat. strenuus), [in LXX: 4Ki.19:28 (שַׁאֲנָן)* ;]
insolent luxury, wantonness: Rev.18:3 (a late word, first found in a Comic poet, B.C. 300, see Kennedy, Sources, 41, cf. στρηνιάω).†
(AS)
(cf. Lat. strenuus), [in LXX: 4Ki.19:28 (שַׁאֲנָן)* ;]
insolent luxury, wantonness: Rev.18:3 (a late word, first found in a Comic poet, B.C. 300, see Kennedy, Sources, 41, cf. στρηνιάω).†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G4764 is translated
- sensuality ×1
Bible verses with G4764 (strēnos)
Strēnos appears in 1 verse.
- Revelation 18:3
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.