Definition

a side-dish (the receptacle)

Etymology

from G3844 (παρά) and the base of G3795 (ὀψάριον);

Word family

• παρά pará
• ὀψάριον opsárion

How the KJV renders it

• platter

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.