noun · neuter
aristem
Strong’sG712
breakfast or a mid-day meal
stem arist-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄριστον, -ου, τό,
[in LXX: III Ki 3:1 (לֶחֶם), To 2:1, 4, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G712 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidar'-is-ton
the best meal (or breakfast; perhaps from ἦρι ("early")), i.e. luncheon
Fromapparently neuter of a superlative from the same as G730;
King Jamesdinner.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
morning meal, breakfast, twice in Refs 8th c.BC+: later, breakfast was called ἀκράτισμα, and ἄριστον was the midday meal, our luncheon,Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. αἱρεῖσθαι, ποιεῖσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+. [; contraction from ᾰ (y) ερι-στον, cf. Gothic air, OHG. ēr 'early', Avest. ayar[schwa] 'day'; also ᾱ (y) ερ- in ἦρι, ἠέριο; -στο- from -d-to-, root ed- 'eat'.]
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | aristem | aristeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | aristeu1×ἀρίστου | aristeiu |
| to, for dative | ariste | aristei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ariste is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
aristeu“dinner”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 11:38“dinner”… hoti ouk prōtem baptizita pro teu aristeu.… to see that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.
aristem2×
Matthew 22:4… legarōntos; Legavar toi kalorēntoi; Idou tem aristem mu hetoimazamē, tois taurois mu kai …… invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have …
Luke 14:12“dinner”… kai to kalarēnto auton; Hotan poiaseiō aristem ē deipnem, mē fōnasōr toin filoin …… said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers …