Post by Jim Pate on Mar 7, 2014 10:58:33 GMT -5
νηστεία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: nésteia
Phonetic Spelling: (nace-ti'-ah)
Short Definition: fasting, the day of atonement
Definition: fasting, the day of atonement.
νηστεία, νηστείας, ἡ (νηστεύω, which see), a fasting, fast, i. e. abstinence from food, and a. voluntary, as a religious exercise: of private fasting, Matthew 17:21 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mark 9:29 (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets); Luke 2:37; Acts 14:23; 1 Corinthians 7:5 Rec. of the public fast prescribed by the Mosaic Law (Leviticus 16:29ff; 23:27ff (BB. DD. under the word , and for references to Strabo, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, see Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 1)) and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month Tisri: Acts 27:9 (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October (cf. B. D. under the word (at end)); the fast, accordingly, occurred in the autumn, ἡ χειμέριος ὥρα, when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms, as was the case with the voyage referred to).
b. a fasting to which one is driven by want: 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:27; (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, Athen., others; the Sept. for צום).
Matthew 17:21 Noun-DFS
GRK: προσευχῇ καὶ νηστείᾳ
KJV: prayer and fasting.
INT: prayer and fasting
Luke 2:37 N-DFP
GRK: τοῦ ἱεροῦ νηστείαις καὶ δεήσεσιν
NAS: and day with fastings and prayers.
KJV: but served [God] with fastings and
INT: the temple with fastings and prayers
Acts 14:23 N-GFP
GRK: προσευξάμενοι μετὰ νηστειῶν παρέθεντο αὐτοὺς
NAS: having prayed with fasting, they commended
KJV: with fasting, they commended
INT: having prayed with fasting they committed them
Acts 27:9 N-AFS
GRK: καὶ τὴν νηστείαν ἤδη παρεληλυθέναι
NAS: since even the fast was already over,
KJV: dangerous, because the fast was now
INT: also the fast already had passed
2 Corinthians 6:5 N-DFP
GRK: ἀγρυπνίαις ἐν νηστείαις
NAS: in sleeplessness, in hunger,
KJV: watchings, in fastings;
INT: watchings in fastings
2 Corinthians 11:27 N-DFP
GRK: δίψει ἐν νηστείαις πολλάκις ἐν
NAS: often without food, in cold
KJV: thirst, in fastings often, in
INT: thirst in fastings often in
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: nésteia
Phonetic Spelling: (nace-ti'-ah)
Short Definition: fasting, the day of atonement
Definition: fasting, the day of atonement.
νηστεία, νηστείας, ἡ (νηστεύω, which see), a fasting, fast, i. e. abstinence from food, and a. voluntary, as a religious exercise: of private fasting, Matthew 17:21 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mark 9:29 (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets); Luke 2:37; Acts 14:23; 1 Corinthians 7:5 Rec. of the public fast prescribed by the Mosaic Law (Leviticus 16:29ff; 23:27ff (BB. DD. under the word , and for references to Strabo, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, see Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 1)) and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month Tisri: Acts 27:9 (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October (cf. B. D. under the word (at end)); the fast, accordingly, occurred in the autumn, ἡ χειμέριος ὥρα, when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms, as was the case with the voyage referred to).
b. a fasting to which one is driven by want: 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:27; (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, Athen., others; the Sept. for צום).
Matthew 17:21 Noun-DFS
GRK: προσευχῇ καὶ νηστείᾳ
KJV: prayer and fasting.
INT: prayer and fasting
Luke 2:37 N-DFP
GRK: τοῦ ἱεροῦ νηστείαις καὶ δεήσεσιν
NAS: and day with fastings and prayers.
KJV: but served [God] with fastings and
INT: the temple with fastings and prayers
Acts 14:23 N-GFP
GRK: προσευξάμενοι μετὰ νηστειῶν παρέθεντο αὐτοὺς
NAS: having prayed with fasting, they commended
KJV: with fasting, they commended
INT: having prayed with fasting they committed them
Acts 27:9 N-AFS
GRK: καὶ τὴν νηστείαν ἤδη παρεληλυθέναι
NAS: since even the fast was already over,
KJV: dangerous, because the fast was now
INT: also the fast already had passed
2 Corinthians 6:5 N-DFP
GRK: ἀγρυπνίαις ἐν νηστείαις
NAS: in sleeplessness, in hunger,
KJV: watchings, in fastings;
INT: watchings in fastings
2 Corinthians 11:27 N-DFP
GRK: δίψει ἐν νηστείαις πολλάκις ἐν
NAS: often without food, in cold
KJV: thirst, in fastings often, in
INT: thirst in fastings often in