Dine, Dinner

primarily, "to breakfast" (see B), was later used also with the meaning "to dine," e.g., Luk 11:37; in Joh 1:21,15, 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.

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, Luk 14:12.