noun · feminine
nēsteias
Strong’sG3521
fasting, the day of atonement
stem nēstei-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 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.
νηστεία, -ας, ἡ
(< νηστεύω), [in LXX for צוֹם;]
SYN.: ἀσιτία, q.v.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3521 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnace-ti'-ah
abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
Fromfrom G3522;
King Jamesfast(-ing).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
fast, νηστεῖαι καὶ ὁρταί NT+5th c.BC+; νηστείας ὄζειν Refs 4th c.BC+; at Athens, name for the third day of the Thesmophoria, Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nēsteias | nēsteiais |
| object accusative | nēsteian1×νηστείαν | nēsteiain |
| direct address vocative | nēsteiar | nēsteiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nēsteiau | nēsteiaiu1×νηστειῶν |
| to, for dative | nēsteia | nēsteiai3×νηστείαις |
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
nēsteia 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
nēsteian“fast”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 27:9… tou plouou dia tem kai tan nēsteian ēdē parercharē, parainate tos Paulos… dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,
nēsteiaiu“fasting”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 14:23… autoi kata ekklēsan presbuteroin proseucherantois meta nēsteiaiu paratithela autoin to kurio eis hon …… them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the …
nēsteiai“hunger”to, fordative plural3×
Luke 2:37… tessares, has ouk apostēote teu hiereu nēsteiai kai deēsiai latreuarōntas nuktan kai hēmeran.… temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
2 Corinthians 6:5… akatastasiai, en kopoi, en agrupniai, en nēsteiai,… riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
2 Corinthians 11:27… pollakis, en limo kai dipse, en nēsteiai pollakis, en psuche kai gumnota;… in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.