Bible word study

Trapeza (Strong’s G5132): Meaning in the Bible

Trapeza (τράπεζα) is the Greek word numbered G5132 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated bank, meat, table..

• Original wordτράπεζα
• Transliterationtrápeza
• Pronunciationtrap'-ed-zah
• Strong’s numberG5132
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. probably contracted from G5064 and G3979;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Trapeza appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Trapeza (G5132) stands behind 15 English renderings in 14 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Luke (4), Matthew (2), Mark (2).

How the King James Bible renders Trapeza, by count

• table8 of 15 (53 percent)
• tables4 of 15 (27 percent)
• meat1 of 15 (7 percent)
• the bank1 of 15 (7 percent)
• the table1 of 15 (7 percent)

Three places to read Trapeza

• Matthew 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
• Luke 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
• Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Trapeza in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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