δεῖπνον, δείπνου, τό, and according to a rare and late form ὁ δεῖπνος in Luk_14:16 Lachmann (cf. Tdf. on Rev_19:9; Rev_19:17, 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 τό ἄριστον which see (and references there), designating as τό δεῖπνον the evening meal or supper); 1. supper, especially a formal meal usually held at evening: Luk_14:17; Luk_14:24; Joh_13:2; Joh_13:4; Joh_21:20; plural: Mat_23:6; Mar_12:39; Luke (Luk_11:43 Lachmann in brackets); Luk_20:46; used of the Messiah's feast, symbolizing salvation in the kingdom of heaven: Rev_19:9; Rev_19:17; κυριακόν δεῖπνον (see κυριακός, 1), 1Co_11:20; ποιεῖν δεῖπνον, Luk_14:12 (ἄριστον ἤ δεῖπνον); Luk_14:16 (Dan_5:1 (Theod.)); with the addition τίνι, Mar_6:21; Joh_12:2. 2. universally, food taken at evening: 1Co_11:21.

δεῖπνον deipnon 16x pr. a meal; supper, the principal meal taken in the evening, Luk_14:12 ; Joh_13:2 ; Joh_13:4 ; meton. food, 1Co_11:21 ; a feast, banquet, Mat_23:6 ; Mar_6:21 ; Mar_12:39 banquet; feast; supper.

δεῖπνον , -ον , τό , [in LXX chiefly for H6598 (Da);] the chief meal of the day, dinner, supper: Mat_23:6 , Mar_12:39 , Luk_14:17 ; Luk_14:24 ; Luk_20:46 , Joh_13:2-4 ; Joh_21:20 , 1Co_11:21 ; δ . ποιεῖν , Mar_6:21 , Luk_14:12 ; Luk_14:16 Joh_12:2 ; κυριακὸν ( q.v. ) δ ., 1Co_11:20 ; metaph . ( Dalman, Words , 118), δ . τ . γάμου τ . ἀρνίου , Rev_19:9 ; δ . τ . μέγα τ . Θεοῦ , Rev_19:17 .†

δεῖπνον [page 139] In a lengthy account or private expenses, P Oxy IV. 736 .36 ( c. A.D. 1), we find the entry ἀσπαράγω̣(ν ) [δί ]πνῳ Ἀντ (ᾶτος ) ὅτ᾽ εἰς τὸ περι̣δ [ι ]πνο (ν ) Ἀθη ( ) γναφέω (ς ) (ἡμιωβέλιον ), asparagus for the dinner of Antas when (he went) to the funeral feast of Athe . . . the fuller ½ ob. (Edd.) : cf. ib. 738 .1 ( c. A.D. 1) δίπνωι ε̄ Κανωπικὸν ἧπαρ , for dinner on the 5th a Canopic liver. For δειπνητήριον = a civic banqueting-hall see the inscription of the time of Vespasian (A.D. 69 79) in P Fay p. 33. Another compound, δειπνοκλήτωρ , occurs in the remarkable alternative version of the parable of Luk_14:7 ff. , found in D Φ al after Mat_20:28 . Nestle, Text. Criticism , p. 257, remarks that Artemidorus ( ap. Athenaeus) called the ἐλέατρος by this name a manager of the table, taster (LS). He equates it to a Syriac phrase = master of the feast, and claims it as belonging to the later popular language. It may accordingly represent not the entertainer but the nomenclator the slave who acted as marshal at a dinner-party. Δεῖπνον is not frequent in our documents, but it survives in MGr. We might add P Lond 219( a ) recto .1, .2 (ii/B.C.) (= II. p. 2), where in accounts concerning a dinner (περὶ δεῖπνον ) the beer (ζύτον ) costs 40 dr. a chous (nearly 6 pints), which the editor observes was a high price.

δεῖπνον [Etym: δάπτω] in Hom. "the principal meal" of the day, —sometimes "the noonday meal", sometimes = ἄριστον, "the morning meal", sometimes = δόρπον, "the evening meal". In old attic "the midday or afternoon meal, dinner or supper":— ἀπὸ δείπνου straightway after "the meal", Il. ; καλεῖν ἐπὶ δεῖπνον; δ. παραθεῖναι, etc. generally, "fodder, provender", Il. , Aesch.

δεῖπνον, -ου, τό [in LXX chiefly for פַּת־בַּג (Da) ;] the chief meal of the day, dinner, supper: Mat.23:6, Mrk.12:39, Luk.14:17, 24 20:46, Jhn.13:2, 4 21:20, 1Co.11:21; δ. ποιεῖν, Mrk.6:21, Luk.14:12, 16, Jhn.12:2; κυριακὸν (which see) δ., 1Co.11:20; metaphorically (Dalman, Words, 118), δ. τ. γάμου τ. ἀρνίου, Rev.19:9; δ. τ. μέγα τ. Θεοῦ, Rev.19:17.† (AS)