| Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Given to eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia GLUTTON; GLUTTONOUS glut'-'-n, glut'-'-n-us (zalal, "to be lavish"; phagos): "Glutton" (from glut, to swallow greedily) is the translation of zolel from zalal, "to shake or pour out," "to be lavish, a squanderer." In Deuteronomy 21:20, "This our son. is a glutton, and a drunkard," the word may mean a squanderer or prodigal; the English Revised Version has "a riotous liver." In Proverbs 23:21, "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty" (following zole bhasar, "squanderers of flesh," the Revised Version (British and American) "gluttonous eaters of flesh"), "glutton" in the usual sense is intended; "a man gluttonous," "a gluttonous man" (the Revised Version) (phagos, "an eater," "a glutton") was a term applied to Christ in His freedom from asceticism (Matthew 11:19 Luke 7:34).
The Revised Version has "idle gluttons" (margin Greek, "bellies") for "slow bellies" (Titus 1:12); "gluttonous" "gluttons," for "riotous" (Proverbs 23:20; Proverbs 28:7).
W. L. Walker |  | Multi-Version Concordance Gluttonous (4 Occurrences) Matthew 11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say,'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children. " (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS) Luke 7:34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say,'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS) Proverbs 23:20 Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: (ASV JPS YLT NAS RSV) Proverbs 28:7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father. (See JPS) |