Strong's G5132 · Greek

τράπεζα

trapeza · trap'-ed-zah

probably contracted from 5064 and 3979; a table or stool (as being four-legged), usually for food (figuratively, a meal); also a counter for money (figuratively, a broker's office for loans at interest)

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

τράπεζα (G5132)

15 τράπεζα , -ης, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for שֻׁלְחָן , also for לֶחֶם , etc. ;] a table, dining-table : Mt 15:27 , Mk 7:28 , Lk 16:21 19:23 22:21 , 30 ; of the table of shewbread, He 9:2 . By meton., of food provided (v. DB , iv, 670 a): Ac 16:34 , Ro 11:9 (LXX) I Co 10:21 ; διακονεῖν ταῖς τ. , Ac 6:2 (cf. Page, in l., but v. infr.). A money-changer's table, a bank (Dem., Arist., al.): Mt 21:12 , Mk 11:15 , Lk 19:23 , Jo 2:15 ; so also acc to Dr. Field ( Notes , 113), Ac 6:2 (but v. supr.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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