Bible Dictionary
Glutton
A glutton is a person who habitually overindulges in food and wastes resources through self-indulgence. Scripture associates gluttony with disorderly or wasteful living.
Definition
A glutton is a person who habitually indulges in eating and wastes resources through self-indulgence. The term can also describe a prodigal or disorderly person who squanders his means and abuses his body.
Biblical Usage
Scripture associates gluttony with wasteful or riotous living. In the Gospels, the term is used by opponents as a description applied to Jesus in accusation.
Scripture References
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Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Deut. 21:20), Heb. zolel, from a word meaning “to shake out,” “to squander;” and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his means by indulgence. In Prov. 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Prov. 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version “riotous men;” Revised Version, “gluttonous.” Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.