Dictionaries :: Delicately (Live)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Delicately (Live):

from thrupto, "to enervate," signifies "to lead a voluptuous life, to give oneself up to pleasure," Jam 5:5, RV, "ye have lived delicately;" AV, "ye have lived in pleasure."

Notes:

(1) Cp. spatalao, from spatale, "wantonness, to live riotously," used with A in Jam 5:5, "ye have lived in pleasure" (RV, "have taken your..."); cp. 1Ti 5:6, of carnal women in the church, AV, "liveth in pleasure," RV, "giveth herself to pleasure.
See PLEASURE.

(2) Cp. also streniao, "to run riot," translated "lived deliciously," in Rev 18:7, 9, AV (RV, "waxed wanton" and "lived wantonly"). Cp. DELICACIES (above).
See WANTON. Cp. the intensive form katastreniao, "to wax utterly wanton," 1Ti 5:11.

(3) Spatalao "might properly be laid to the charge of the prodigal, scattering his substance in riotous living, Luk 15:13;... truphao to the charge of the rich man, faring sumptuously every day, Luk 16:19; streniao to Jeshurun, when, waxing fat, he kicked, Deu 32:15" (Trench, Syn. liv).

Delicately (Live):

akin to A, is used with en, in the phrase en truphe, "luxuriously," "delicately," Luk 7:25, and denotes effeminacy, softness; "to revel" in 2Pe 2:13 (AV, "riot"), lit., "counting reveling in the day time a pleasure."
See REVEL, RIOT.

Note: Entruphao, "to revel luxuriously," is used in 2Pe 2:13, RV, "reveling" (AV, "sporting themselves").