Quick Definition
a bowl, dish, platter
Strong's Definition
a side-dish (the receptacle)
Derivation: from G3844 (παρά) and the base of G3795 (ὀψάριον);
KJV Usage: platter
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παροψίς, παροψίδος, ἡ (παρά (which see IV. 1), and ὄψον, on which see ὀψάριον);
1. "a side-dish, a dish of dainties or choice food suited not so much to satisfy as to gratify the appetite; a side-accompaniment of the more solid food"; hence, equivalent to παροψημα; so in Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 4 and many Attic writings in Athen. 9, p. 367 d. following
2. the dish itself in which the delicacies are served up: Mat_23:25-26 (here T omits; WH brackets παροψίδος); Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 74; Alciphron 3, 20; Plutarch, de vitand. aere alien. § 2. This latter use of the word is condemned by the Atticists; cf. Sturz, Lex. Xenophon, iii., 463f; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 176; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 265f); Poppo on Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 4.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παροψίς paropsis 1x
pr. a dainty side dish; meton. a plate, platter, Mat_23:25
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* 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; v. Rutherford, NPhr. , 265 f .)†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παροψίς [page 497]
For the late use of παροψίς in Mat_23:25 to denote the dish on which dainties were served rather than the dainties themselves (see Rutherford NP , p. 265 f.), cf. BGU III. 781 .2 (as amended Berichfigungen , p. 66 i/A.D.) παροψίδων ἀναγλύπτων , so .6, .14 : also Artem. p. 67 .6 πίνακες δὲ καὶ παροψίδες .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παροψίς παρ-οψίς, ίδος, ἡ, [Etym: ὄψον] "a dainty side-dish", Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
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.)†
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