Lexical Summary nystazō: to nod in sleep, to fall asleep Original Word: νυστάζωTransliteration: nystazō Phonetic Spelling: (noos-tad'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to nod in sleep, to fall asleep Meaning: to nod in sleep, to fall asleep Strong's Concordance slumber. From a presumed derivative of neuo; to nod, i.e. (by implication) to fall asleep; figuratively, to delay -- slumber. see GREEK neuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3573: νυστάζωνυστάζω; 1 aorist ἐνύσταξα; (ΝΥΩ, cf. νεύω, νευστάζω); the Sept. for נוּם; 1. properly, "to nod in sleep, to sleep (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others); to be overcome or oppressed with sleep; to fall asleep, drop off to sleep," ((cf. Wycliffe) to nap it"): Matthew 25:5; the Sept. for נִרְדַּם, Psalm 75:7 2. like the Latindormito (cf. our to be napping), tropical equivalent to: to be negligent, careless (Plato, Plutarch, others): of a thing equivalent to to linger, delay, 2 Peter 2:3. |
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