A-1 | Verb | Strong's Number: g709 | Greek: aristao |
Dine, Dinner:
primarily, "to breakfast" (see B), was later used also with the meaning "to dine," e.g., Luk 11:37; in Jhn 21:12, 15, RV, "break your fast," and "had broken their fast," for AV, "dine;" obviously there it was the first meal in the day. In the Sept., Gen 43:25; 1Sa 14:24; 1Ch 13:7.
B-1 | Noun | Strong's Number: g712 | Greek: ariston |
Dine, Dinner:
primarily, "the first food," taken early in the morning before work; the meal in the Pharisee's house, in Luk 11:37, was a breakfast or early meal (see RV, marg.); the dinner was called deipnon. Later the breakfast was called akratisma (not in NT), and dinner, ariston, as in Mat 22:4; Luk 11:38; 14:12.
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