Trápeza — G5132

Definition

feminine noun

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)

1. a table on which food is placed, an eating-table
2. equivalent to the food placed upon the table
3. a banquet, feast

1. the table or stand of a money-changer, where he sits, exchanging different kinds of money for a fee (agio), and paying back with interest loans or deposits

Usually translated as

table, bank, meat

Origin

probably contracted from G5064 and G3979

• téssares (G5064)
• pezēi (G3979)

Occurrences

Trápeza occurs 15 times in 14 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (2), Mark (2), Luke (4), John (1), Acts (2), Romans (1), 1 Corinthians (1), Hebrews (1)

• Matthew 15:27 — And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table (τραπέζης).
• Matthew 21:12 — And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables (τραπέζας) of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
• Mark 7:28 — And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table (τραπέζης) eat of the children’s crumbs.
• Mark 11:15 — And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables (τραπέζας) of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
• Luke 16:21 — And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table (τραπέζης): moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
• Luke 19:23 — Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank (τράπεζαν), that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
• Luke 22:21 — But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table (τραπέζης).
• Luke 22:30 — That ye may eat and drink at my table (τραπέζης) in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
• John 2:15 — And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables (τραπέζας);
• Acts 6:2 — Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables (τραπέζαις).
• Acts 16:34 — And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before (τράπεζαν) them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
• Romans 11:9 — And David saith, Let their table (τράπεζα) be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
• 1 Corinthians 10:21 — Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table (τραπέζης), and of the table of devils.
• 1 Corinthians 10:21 — Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table (τραπέζης) of devils.
• Hebrews 9:2 — For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table (τράπεζα), and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.