noun · feminine

asitias

Greekἀσιτία (asitia)

Strong’sG776

abstinence, a fast

stem asiti-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

without food1×

What it means

* ἀσιτία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἄσιτος),

fasting, abstinence from food: Ac 27:21.†

SYN.: νηστεία (MM, ut infr.).

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G776 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas-ee-tee'-ah

fasting (the state)

Fromfrom G777;

King Jamesabstinence.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	asitias	asitiais
object accusative	asitian	asitiain
direct address vocative	asitiar	asitiair
of, belonging to genitive	asitiau1×ἀσιτίας	asitiaiu
to, for dative	asitia	asitiai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

asitistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

asitia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

asitiau“without food”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 27:21“without food”Pollau tē asitiau huparcharōtau tote histaniratos tos Paulos en mese autoiu legata; Date men, ō anēroir, peitharcharatoin mi mē anagirō apo tau Krētau kerdainara tē tan hubrian houtan kai tan zēmian.After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.