Original Word: ἄριστον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: ariston
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-is-ton)
Short Definition: breakfast or a mid-day meal
Definition: breakfast or a mid-day meal.

712 áriston (literally, "without boundary, designation") – properly, "undetermined," referring to the meal eaten anytime before the main meal (i.e. "supper," 1173 /deípnon).

STRONGS NT 712: ἄριστον

ἄριστον, ἀρίστου, τό (from Homer down);

a. the first food, taken early in the morning before work, breakfast; dinner was called δεῖπνον. But the later Greeks called breakfast; τό ἀκράτισμα, and dinner ἄριστον i. e. δεῖπνον μεσηβρινον, Athen. 1, 9, 10, p. 11b.; and so in the N. T. Hence,

b. dinner: Luke 14:12 (ποιεῖν ἄριστον ἤ δεῖπνον, to which others are invited); Luke 11:38; Matthew 22:4 (ἑτοιμάζειν). (B. D. under the word ; Becker's Charicles, namely, vi. excurs. i. (English translation, p. 312f).)

dinner.

Apparently neuter of a superlative from the same as arrhen; the best meal (or breakfast; perhaps from eri ("early")), i.e. Luncheon -- dinner.

see GREEK arrhen

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