James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Banquet

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Banquet


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BANQUET.—In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘banquet’ and ‘banqueting’ always mean wine-drinking, not feasting generally. Thus Son_2:4 ‘He brought me to the banqueting house’ (Heb. ‘the house of wine’),1Pe_4:3 ‘banquetings’ (Gr. ‘drinkings,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘carousings’). See Meals.