Strong’s G3943 · Greek
πάροινος
pároinos · par'-oy-nos
Origin from παρά (G3844) and οἶνος (G3631);
Meaning staying near wine, i.e. tippling (a toper)
In the King James Version given to wine.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Timothy 3:3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
- Titus 1:7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.