Revel, Reveling

New Testament

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

Definition

1trupheG5172

"luxuriousness, daintiness, reveling," is translated freely by the verb "to revel" in 2Pe 2:13, RV (AV, "to riot"), lit., "counting reveling in the daytime a pleasure." In Luk 7:25 it is used with en, "in," and translated "delicately." See DELICATELY, RIOT.

2komosG2970

"a revel, carousal," the concomitant and consequence of drunkenness, is used in the plural, Rom 13:13, translated by the singular, RV, "reveling" (AV, "rioting"); Gal 5:21, 1Pe 4:3, "revelings." See RIOT.

Note: For entruphao, 2Pe 2:13, RV, "to revel," see SPORTING.