STRONGS NUMBER G2897


Word Summary
kraipalē: drunken nausea
Original Word: κραιπάλη
Transliteration: 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: κραιπάλῃ

κραιπάλῃ (WH κρεπάλη, see their Appendix, p. 151), κραιπαλης, (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)), Latincrapula (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.]