Bible Dictionary · G
Glutton
(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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
