Quick Definition
I dine
Strong's Definition
to dine, i.e. take the principle (or evening) meal
Derivation: from G1173 (δεῖπνον);
KJV Usage: sup (X -er)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δειπνέω, δείπνῳ: (future δειπνήσω; 1 aorist ἐδείπνησα; (δεῖπνον); to sup: Luk_17:8; Luk_22:20 (WH reject the whole passage, see their Appendix); 1Co_11:25; in an allegory, δειπνήσω μετ' αὐτοῦ, I will make him to share in my most intimate and blissful contact: Rev_3:20.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
δειπνέω deipneō 4x
to eat or dine, Luk_17:8 ; Luk_22:20 ; 1Co_11:25 ; Rev_3:20
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δειπνέω , -ῶ
( < δεῖπνον , q.v. ),
[in LXX : Pro_23:1 ( H3898 ), Tob_7:8 ; Tob_8:1 , Da LXX Dan_11:27 * ;]
to take the chief meal of the day, to dine, to sup: Luk_17:8 ; Luk_22:20 ( WH , br., R , mg . omits), 1Co_11:25 ; metaph ., Rev_3:20 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
δειπνέω [page 138]
Interesting examples of the word occur in invitations to dinner or to a wedding-feast, e.g. P Oxy I. 110 (ii/A.D.) ἐρωτᾷ , σε Χαιρήμων δειπνῆσαι εἰς κλείνην τοῦ κυρίου Σαράπιδος ἐν τῷ Σαραπείῳ αὔριον , ἥτις ἐστὶν ῑε̄ , ἀπὸ ὥρας θ̄ , Chaeremon requests your company at dinner at the table of the lord Sarapis in the Serapeum tomorrow, the 15th, at 9 o clock : similarly ib. 111 (iii/A.D.), III. 523 (ii/A.D.), VI. 926 (iii/A.D.), P Fay 132 (iii/A.D.). The hour, which corresponds to our 3 p.m., illustrates the elasticity of a term which will answer to our lunch or supper on occasion : it relieves some of the difficulty in Luk_14:16 ff. , where an ἄριστον seems demanded by the details. In P Oxy VI. 927 (iii/A.D.) we have the same formula and the same hour, but εἰς γάμους stands in the place of δειπνῆσαι . It is curious to find our phrase to dine out paralleled BGU IV. 1141 .36 ( c. B.C. 14)] οὐδὲ ε̣͗ξω δεδειπνηκέναι . Ξιύστον δὲ ἐπιγνοὺς δεδειπνηκέναι ἔσω ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ παρὰ Ἔρωτα δὶς προσελαβόμην αὐτὸν εἰς οἶκον παρ᾽ ἐμέ : it is not clear that the parallel is more than verbal. MGr δειπνῶ = lunch, dine.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
δειπνέω "to make a meal", Hom. : in attic "to take the chief meal, to dine", δ. τὸ ἄριστον "to make" breakfast serve as "dinner", Xen. c. acc., δ. ἄρτον "to make a meal on" bread, Hes. ; also, δ. ἀπό τινος Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
δειπνέω, -ῶ
(δεῖπνον, which see), [in LXX: Pro.23:1 (לחם), Tob.7:8 8:1, Dan LXX 11:27 * ;]
to take the chief meal of the day, to dine, to sup: Luk.17:8 22:20 (WH, br., R, mg. omits), 1Co.11:25; metaphorically, Rev.3:20.†
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