MULTIPLICITY WORD OF THE DAY

If you are thinking rave, Christmas gathering, or ball, you are partly to the full meaning of party.  If you add, a political or ideological group, you have the second third of the Biblical use.  The final meaning is a bit less intuitive: a person or group of people who are part of the circumcision; part of the identified people of God.  To see all three meanings, search for party.  To gain a greater understanding of the third meaning, check out the Vines Dictionary Thought (lower right when you search party) titled “circumcision.”