ἄσιτος
ásitos · G777 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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without food, without desiring food
A state of having been without food, frequently with the implication of being caused by a lack of appetite
ExamplesActs 27:33 Until the day was about to dawn, Paul kept encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken in nothing.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- νῆστις nēstis · G3523 · to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food
- νῆστις is a Greek adjective meaning 'fasting' or 'without food,' closely parallel to ἄσιτος. Both describe a state of being without food, though νῆστις more commonly emphasizes the physical hunger or the act of fasting, while ἄσιτος emphasizes the simple fact of not having taken food.
In the other Testament 1 word
- צוֹם tsôwm · H6685 · fasting
- The Hebrew noun צוֹם refers to a fast or the practice of fasting, semantically parallel to the Greek ἄσιτος which describes being without food. Both terms capture the voluntary abstinence from eating, though one is a noun and the other an adjective.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Without food, without desiring food23.32
- Used in Acts 27:33 of Paul urging the ship's passengers, who had gone without eating, to take food.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀσιτον (σῖτος), fasting; without having eaten: Acts 27:33. (Homer, Odyssey 4, 788; then…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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