νηστεία
nēsteía · G3521 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to fast, fasting
To go without food for a set time as a religious duty
ExamplesLuke 2:37 and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She did not leave the temple grounds, serving night and day with fasts and prayers.
Acts 14:23 When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
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to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food
The state of being very hungry, presumably for a considerable period of time and as the result of necessity rather than choice (compare νηστεία ‘fasting,’)
Examples2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in mob attacks, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,
2 Corinthians 11:27 I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
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festival of the atonement, day to commemorate the atonement of sin
A Jewish festival celebrating the forgiveness of sins on the day of atonement
ExamplesActs 27:9 When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul started admonishing them,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παρέρχομαιto pass away, to pass by 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐνin 2
- μετάwith, after 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- צוֹם tsôwm · H6685 · fasting
- Hebrew צוֹם (tsôwm, H6685) denotes the act or practice of fasting as religious abstinence from food, the direct lexical equivalent rendered by Greek νηστεία (nēsteía, G3521) in LXX translation contexts; both terms carry the same core semantic range of voluntary religious fasting.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- To be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food23.31
- Listing his hardships for the gospel, 2 Corinthians 11:27 states “I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure,” where “without food” renders this noun in its underlying sense of an absence of food, alongside its more specific religious-fasting sense.
- Festival of the atonement, day to commemorate the atonement of sin51.11
- Describing the delayed voyage before the shipwreck, Acts 27:9 states “When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul started admonishing them,” where “the fast” renders this noun in its particular sense as a reference to the annual Day of Atonement observance, used here as a seasonal marker for the lateness of the year.
- To fast, fasting53.65
- Describing the prophetess Anna's devotion, Luke 2:37 states she “did not leave the temple grounds, serving night and day with fasts and prayers,” where “fasts” renders this noun for the religious practice of abstaining from food.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νηστείας, ἡ (νηστεύω, which see), a fasting, fast, i. e. abstinence from food, and a.…
b. a fasting to which one is driven by want: 2 Cor 6:5; 2 Cor 11:27; (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, Athen., others; the Sept. for צום).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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