Lexical Summary nēsteia: fasting, a fast Original Word: νηστείαTransliteration: nēsteia Phonetic Spelling: (nace-ti'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: fasting, a fast Meaning: fasting, a fast Strong's Concordance fasting. From nesteuo; abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement -- fast(-ing). see GREEK nesteuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3521: νηστείανηστεία, 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 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). |