Dinner
Dinner
SEE DINE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Dinner
The early meal, generally at 11 o’clock, as “supper” was the later meal, and that to which friends were asked as to a feast (Luk 14:12).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Dinner
DINNER (, Mat 22:4, Luk 11:38 [(Revised Version margin) breakfast] Luk 14:12).In the East there is no meal properly corresponding to our breakfast. Even the guest is allowed to depart in the morning without bite or sup. Eating and drinking early in the day are held to be marks of effeminacy and self-indulgence, and are regarded as bad for the system. Many, especially when on a journey, are content with one meal in the twenty-four hours, taken after sunset. In general, however, a light meal is eaten about the middle of the day, consisting of bread, olives, fruit, leben (sour curded milk), cheese, etc.; but the principal meal is in the evening. Eating at other times is quite casual and informal. It is probably correct to say that in NT and correspond respectively to our luncheon and dinner. See, further, art. Meals.
W. Ewing.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Dinner
DINNER.See Meals, 2.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Dinner
diner (, ariston; Mat 22:4; Luk 11:38 (the Revised Version, margin breakfast); Luk 14:12; compare Rth 2:14; Joh 21:13): In oriental as in classical lands it was customary, in ancient times, as now, to have but two meals in the day, and the evidence, including that of Josephus, goes to show that the second or evening meal was the principal one. The morning morsel, as the Talmud calls it, was in no sense a meal. The peasant or artisan, before beginning work, might break (his) fast (Joh 21:12, Joh 21:15) by taking a bit of barley bread with some simple relish, but to eat (a full meal) in the morning was a reproach (Ecc 10:16). The full meal was not to be taken until a little before or after sunset, when the laborers had come in from their work (Luk 17:7; compare the supper time of Luk 14:17). The noon meal, taken at an hour when climatic conditions called for rest from exertion (the ariston of the Greeks, rendered dinner in English Versions of the Bible, Mat 22:4; Luk 11:38, the Revised Version, margin breakfast), was generally very simple, of bread soaked in light wine with a handful of parched corn (Rth 2:14), or of pottage and bread broken into a bowl (Bel and the Dragon 33), or of bread and broiled fish (Joh 21:13). Many, when on journey especi content with one meal a day, taken after sunset. In general, eating at other times is casual and informal; evening is the time for the formal meal, or feast. See MEALS.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Dinner
1. aruchah, ‘allowance.’ Any meal of herbs where there is love is better than a stalled ox with hatred. Pro 15:17.
2. akal, ‘to eat.’ Joseph’s brethren were ‘to eat’ with him at noon. Gen 43:16.
3. a meal taken in the morning: cf. Joh 21:4; Joh 21:12; Joh 21:15; but late enough for friends to be invited. Luk 11:37-38. Used for a marriage feast in Mat 22:2; Mat 22:4, perhaps as late as noon: it is distinguished from ‘supper’ in Luk 14:12.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Dinner
Eaten at noon
Gen 43:16 Feasts