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travpeza travpeza,
trapevzh",
hJ (from
tevtra, and
pevza a foot), from Homer Idown, the Septuagint for @j;l]vu, a table;1. a. a table on which food is placed, an eating-table: ; ; ; ; ,; the table in the temple at Jerusalem on which the consecrated loaves were placed (see
provqesi", 1), . b. equivalent to the food placed upon the table (cf. Fritzsche on Additions to ):
paratiqevnai
prapezan (like the Latin mensam apponere (cf. our `to set a good table')), to set a table, i. e., food, before one (Thucydides 1, 130; Aelian v. h. 2, 17), ;
diakonei'n,
tai'"
trapevzai" (see
diakonevw, 3), . c. a banquet, feast (from Herodotus down): (from ());
metevcein
trapevzh"
daimonivwn, to partake of a feast prepared by ((?) see below) demons (the idea is this: the sacrifices of the Gentiles inure to the service of demons who employ them in preparing feasts for their worshippers; accordingly one who participates in those feasts, enters into communion and fellowship with the demons);
kurivou, to partake of a feast prepared by ((?) see below) the Lord (just as when he first instituted the supper), (but it seems more natural to take the genitives
daimonivwn and
kurivou simply as possessive (cf. Winer's Grammar, 189 (178); Buttmann, sec. 127, 27), and to modify the above interpretation accordingly).2. 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 (Lysias, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Josephus, Plutarch, others): ; ; ;
tov
ajrguvrion
didovnai
ejpiv (
thvn)
travpezan, to put the money into a (the) bank at interest, .*