Lexicon strénos: insolent luxury Original Word: στρῆνος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: strénos Phonetic Spelling: (stray'-nos) Short Definition: wantonness, luxury Definition: wantonness, luxury. HELPS word-Studies 4764 strḗnos (from strēnēs, "rough, grating") – properly, excessive, strong desire that "longs to break forth" (J. Thayer), i.e. in self-indulgent luxury (used only in Rev 18:3). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom strénés (hard, strong) Definitioninsolent luxury NASB Translationsensuality (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4764: στρῆνοςστρῆνος, στρήνους, τό (allied with στερεός, which see), excessive strength which longs to break forth, over-strength; luxury ( R. V. wantonness (marginal reading luxury)): Revelation 18:3 (see δύναμις, d.); for שַׁאֲנָן, arrogance, 2 Kings 19:28; eager desire, Locophron, 438.
Strong's delicacy, luxury Akin to stereos; a "straining", "strenuousness" or "strength", i.e. (figuratively) luxury (voluptuousness) -- delicacy. see GREEK stereos |
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