STRONGS G755:
ἀρχιτρίκλινος,
-ου,
ὁ, (
τρίκλινον [or
-νος (namely,
οἶκος), a room with three couches]),
the superintendent of a dining-room, a
τρικλινάρχης,
table-master:
John 2:8f [cf.
B. D. under the word Governor]. It differs from "the master of a feast,"
συμποσιάρχης,
toast-master, who was one of the guests selected by lot to prescribe to the rest the mode of drinking; cf. Sir. 35:1 (Sir. 32:1). But it was the duty of the
ἀρχιτρίκλινος to place in order the tables and couches, arrange the courses, taste the food and wine beforehand, etc. (Heliodorus 7, 27) [Some regard the distinction between the two words as obliterated in later Greek; cf.
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, and Schaff's Lange's Commentary on John, the passage cited.]
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