Dictionaries :: Dine, Dinner

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

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.

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.