Word study · Greek

kômos

carousing, wild partying

Say it: KO-mos (approximate)

κῶμος

What it means

A noisy, drunken party with revelry. In 5:21 it is a work of the flesh, and in Romans 13:13 Paul says to walk honorably, not "in carousing and drunkenness."

Range of meaning

  • CarousingWild partying.
  • RevelryNoisy celebration.

In Galatians

Every verse (1)

Verses where G2970 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources