Word Summary
kraipalē: drunken nausea
Original Word: κραιπάληTransliteration: kraipalē
Phonetic Spelling: (krahee-pal'-ay)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: drunken nausea
Meaning: drunken nausea
Strong's Concordance
drunken dissipation
Probably from the same as harpazo; properly, a headache (as a seizure of pain) from drunkenness, i.e. (by implication) a debauch (by analogy, a glut) -- surfeiting.
see GREEK harpazo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2897: κραιπάλῃκραιπάλῃ (
WH κρεπάλη, see their Appendix, p. 151),
κραιπαλης,
ἡ (from
ΚΡΑΣ the head, and
πάλλω to toss about; so explained by
Galen and
Clement of Alexandria, Paedag. 2, 2, 26 and Phryn. in Bekker, Anecd., p. 45, 13 (cf.
Vanicek, p. 148)), Latin
crapula (i. e. the giddiness and headache caused by drinking wine to excess):
Luke 21:34 (
A. V. surfeiting; cf.
Trench, § lxi.). (
Aristophanes Acharn. 277;
Alciphron 3, 24;
Plutarch, mor., p. 127 f. (de sanitate 11);
Lucian,
Herodian, 2, 5, 1.)
STRONGS NT 2897: κρεπάλη [κρεπάλη, see κραιπάλῃ.]