Original Word: κραιπάλη, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: kraipalé
Phonetic Spelling: (krahee-pal'-ay)
Short Definition: drunken dissipation
Definition: drunken dissipation, surfeiting.STRONGS NT 2897: κραιπάλῃ

κραιπάλῃ (WH κρεπάλη, see their Appendix, p. 151), κραιπαλης, ἡ (from ΚΡΑΣ the head, and πάλλω to toss about; so explained by Galen and Clement of Alexandria, Paedag. 2, 2, 26 and Phryn. in Bekker, Anecd., p. 45, 13 (cf. Vanicek, p. 148)), Latincrapula (i. e. the giddiness and headache caused by drinking wine to excess): Luke 21:34 (A. V. surfeiting; cf. Trench, § lxi.). (Aristophanes Acharn. 277; Alciphron 3, 24; Plutarch, mor., p. 127 f. (de sanitate 11); Lucian, Herodian, 2, 5, 1.)

STRONGS NT 2897: κρεπάλη [κρεπάλη, see κραιπάλῃ.]

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

drunken dissipation

Probably from the same as harpazo; properly, a headache (as a seizure of pain) from drunkenness, i.e. (by implication) a debauch (by analogy, a glut) -- surfeiting.

see GREEK harpazo

Forms and Transliterations

κραιπάλη κραιπάλῃ κράμα κρεπαλη κρεπάλῃ kraipale kraipalē kraipálei kraipálēi

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