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Dine, Dinner
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primarily, "to breakfast" (see B), was later used also with the meaning "to dine," e.g., Luke 11:37; in John 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., Genesis 43:25; 1 Samuel 14:24; 1 Chronicles 13:7 .
primarily, "the first food," taken early in the morning before work; the meal in the Pharisee's house, in Luke 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 Matthew 22:4; Luke 11:38; 14:12 .
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Dine, Dinner'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​d/dine-dinner.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Dine, Dinner'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​d/dine-dinner.html. 1940.