King James Bible Dictionary - Reference List

Feast

Bible Usage:

feast used 123 times.
feasted used once.
feasting used 7 times.
feasts used 32 times.

First Reference: Genesis 19:3
Last Reference: Jude 1:12

Dictionaries:

Included in Eastons: Yes
Included in Hitchcocks: No
Included in Naves: No
Included in Smiths: No
Included in Websters: Yes
Included in Strongs: Yes
Included in Thayers: Yes
Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

H2282 Used 51 times
H2287 Used 4 times
H3899 Used 1 time
H3900 Used 1 time
H4150 Used 3 times
H4960 Used 21 times
G1403 Used 2 times
G1858 Used 1 time
G1859 Used 26 times
G4910 Used 1 time
G755 Used 3 times

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Feast

As a mark of hospitality (Genesis 19:3; 2 Samuel 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke 15:23; Genesis 21:8); on birthdays (Genesis 40:20; Job 1:4; Matthew 14:6); and on the occasion of a marriage (Judges 14:10; Genesis 29:22).

Feasting was a part of the observances connected with the offering up of sacrifices (Deuteronomy 12:6, 7; 1 Samuel 9:19; 16:3, 5), and with the annual festivals (Deuteronomy 16:11). "It was one of the designs of the greater solemnities, which required the attendance of the people at the sacred tent, that the oneness of the nation might be maintained and cemented together, by statedly congregating in one place, and with one soul taking part in the same religious services. But that oneness was primarily and chiefly a religious and not merely a political one; the people were not merely to meet as among themselves, but with Jehovah, and to present themselves before him as one body; the meeting was in its own nature a binding of themselves in fellowship with Jehovah; so that it was not politics and commerce that had here to do, but the soul of the Mosaic dispensation, the foundation of the religious and political existence of Israel, the covenant with Jehovah. To keep the people's consciousness alive to this, to revive, strengthen, and perpetuate it, nothing could be so well adapated as these annual feasts." (See FESTIVALS.)

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Feast

FEAST, noun [Latin festum.]

1. A sumptuous repast or entertainment, of which a number of guests partake; particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment.

On Pharaoh's birth day, he made a feast to all his servants. Genesis 40:20.

2. A rich or delicious repast or meal; something delicious to the palate.

3. A ceremony of feasting; joy and thanksgiving on stated days, in commemoration of some great event, or in honor of some distinguished personage; an anniversary, periodical or stated celebration of some event; a festival; as on occasion of the games in Greece, and the feast of the passover, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of tabernacles among the Jews.

4. Something delicious and entertaining to the mind or soul; as the dispensation of the gospel is called a feast of fat things. Isaiah 25:6.

5. That which delights and entertains.

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast

Proverbs 15:15.

In the English church, feasts are immovable or movable; immovable, when they occur on the same day of the year, as Christmas day, etc.; and movable, when they are not confined to the same day of the year, as Easter, which regulates many others.

FEAST, verb intransitive

1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions; particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses. Job 1:4.

2. To be highly gratified or delighted.

FEAST, verb transitive

1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table magnificently; as, he was feasted by the king.

2. To delight; to pamper; to gratify luxuriously; as, to feast the soul.

Whose taste or smell can bless the feasted sense.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Feasted

FE'ASTED, participle passive Entertained sumptuously; delighted.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary