KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

(Deuteronomy 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 Proverbs 23:21, the word means debauchees or wasters of their own body. In Proverbs 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version "riotous men;" Revised Version, "gluttonous." Matthew 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to eating, gluttonous.

GLUT'TON, noun glut'n. [Low Latin gluto.] One who indulges to excess in eating.

1. One eager of any thing to excess.

Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.

2. In zoology, an animal of the genus Ursus, found in the noun of Europe and Siberia. It grows to the length of three feet, but has short legs and moves slowly. It is a carnivorous animal, and in order to catch its prey, it climbs a tree and from that darts down upon a deer or other animal. It is names from its voracious appetite.

GLUT'TONIZE, verb intransitive To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to be luxurious.

GLUT'TONOUS, adjective Given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite for food to excess; as a gluttonous age.

1. Consisting in excessive eating; as gluttonous delight.

GLUT'TONOUSLY, adverb With the voracity of a glutton; with excessive eating.

General references
Exodus 16:20-21; Exodus 16:27; Numbers 11:32-33; Deuteronomy 21:20-21; Proverbs 23:21; Proverbs 30:21-22; Ecclesiastes 10:17; Isaiah 22:13; Amos 6:4-7; Luke 12:19-20; Luke 12:45-46; Luke 21:34; Romans 13:13-14; 1 Corinthians 15:32; Philippians 3:19; 1 Peter 4:3; Jude 1:12

Instances of:

Esau
Genesis 25:30-34; Hebrews 12:16-17

Israel
Numbers 11:4; Psalms 78:18

Sons of Eli
1 Samuel 2:12-17

Belshazzar
Daniel 5:1

GLUT'TONY, noun Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food.

1. Luxury of the table.

Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts.

2. Voracity of appetite.