τράπεζα
trapeza
“table”
Definition
a table or stool (as being four-legged), usually for food (figuratively, a meal); also a counter for money (figuratively, a broker's office for loans at interest)
probably contracted from G5064 (τέσσαρες) and G3979 (πεζῇ);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
τράπεζα appears 14 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.
So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.