adjective
asitos
Strong’sG777
fasting
stem asit-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ἄσιτος, -ον
(< ἀ- neg., σῖτος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G777 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
without food, fasting, Refs 8th c.BC+. adverb -ωςLXX
II of forbidden food, εὐωχία ἄ.Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | asitos | asitas | asitem | asitois1×ἄσιτοι | asitais | asiteim |
| object accusative | asiton | asitan | asitoin | asitain | ||
| direct address vocative | asitor | asitar | asitoir | asitair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | asitou | asitau | asiteu | asitoiu | asitaiu | asiteiu |
| to, for dative | asito | asita | asite | asitoi | asitai | asitei |
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
asit 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
asitois“without food”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 27:33“without food”… trofēau legarōntos; Tessareskaidekatan sēmeron hēmeran prosdokarōntois asitois diatelavō, mēdenem proslaberantois;… to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.