STRONGS G1173:
δεῖπνον,
-ου,
τό, and according to a rare and late form
ὁ δεῖπνος in
Luke 14:16 Lachmann [cf.
Tdf. on
Revelation 19:9,
17, also Winers Grammar, 65 (64); on the derivation cf.
δαπάνη] (in Homer the morning meal or breakfast, cf. Passow [more fully Liddell and Scott] under the word; this the Greeks afterward call
τὸ ἄριστον which see [and references there], designating as
τὸ δεῖπνον the evening meal or supper);
1. supper, especially
a formal meal usually held at evening:
Luke 14:17,
24;
John 13:2,
4;
John 21:20; plural:
Matthew 23:6;
Mark 12:39; (
Luke 11:43 Lachmann in brackets);
Luke 20:46; used of the Messiah's feast, symbolizing salvation in the kingdom of heaven:
Revelation 19:9,
17;
κυριακὸν δεῖπνον (see
κυριακός, 1),
1 Corinthians 11:20;
ποιεῖν δεῖπνον,
Luke 14:12 (
ἄριστον ἢ δεῖπνον);
Luke 14:16 (
Daniel 5:1 [Theodotion]); with the addition
τινί,
Mark 6:21;
John 12:2.
2. universally,
food taken at evening:
1 Corinthians 11:21.
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