Quick Definition
παροψίς, ίδος, ἡ n.f. a bowl, dish, platter
Strong's Definition
from 3844 and the base of 3795; a side-dish (the receptacle)
KJV Usage: platter
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ίδος | ὄψον (meat; anything eaten with bread) · ὀψάριον
6.135 · Artifacts · Containers
plate, dish a relatively flat dish, probably somewhat smaller than a πίναξ (6.134); made of baked clay or metal In this one NT context in which παροψίς occurs, it seems to refer to any kind of plate or dish, though in contexts outside the NT, παροψίς is often employed to refer to a dish used for serving certain choice foods and delicacies.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παροψίς, -idos, ἡ, (mapa [q. v. 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 i. q. παρόψημα; so in Xen. Cyr. 1, 3, 4 and many Attic writ. in Athen. 9 p. 367 d. sq. 2. the dish itself in which the delicacies are served up: Mt. xxiii. 25, 26 [here T om. WH br. παροψ.7; Artem. oneir. 1, 74; Alciphr. 3, 20; Plut. de vitand. aere alien. §2. This latter use of the word is condemned by the Atticists; cf. Sturz, Lex. Xen. iii. 463 sq.; Lob. ad Phryn. p. 176; [Rutherford, New [hryn. p. 265 sq.]; Poppo on Xen. Cyr. 1, 3, 4.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παροψίς paropsis 1x
pr. a dainty side dish; meton. a plate, platter, Mt. 23:25*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* παρ-οψίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(< παρά, ὄψον; v.s. ὀψάριον),
a side-dish of dainties (Xen., al.).
In Comic poets and late prose, the dish itself on which the dainties are served: Mt 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. For the late use of παροψίς in Mt 2335 to denote the “*dish”’ on which dainties were served rather than the dainties themselves (see Rutherford VP, p- 265 f.). cf. BGU 111. 7817 (as amended Berrchtigungen, p. 66 i/A.D.) παροψίδων ἀναγλύπτων, so% M4; also Artem. p. 67° πίνακες δὲ kal παροψίϑες.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παροψίς (paropsis) — dish. παροψ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ, (ὄψον) ={παρόψημα}, [Refs 5th c.BC+] fresh tastes of misery, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. dish on which such meats are served, [NT+4th c.BC+]. (The second use is condemned by [Refs 2nd c.AD+]