adjective
nēstios
Strong’sG3523
fasting, without food
stem nēsti-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
νῆστις, -ιος, ὁ, ἡ
(< νη-, neg. prefix, + ἐσθίω),in cl., chiefly poët., [in LXX: Da LXX 6:18 (19) (טְוָת)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3523 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnace'-tis
not eating, i.e. abstinent from food (religiously)
Fromfrom the inseparable negative particle νή- (not) and G2068;
King Jamesfasting.
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
genitive ιος or ιδος, ὁ and ἡ (see. below); also dative νήστει Refs 5th c.BC+: (νη-, ἔδω):—not eating, fasting, of persons, ἀνώγοιμι πτολεμίζειν υἷας Ἀχαιῶν νήστιας, ἀκμήνους NT+8th c.BC+ over the hungry sand, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 with an abstract substantive, frequently in Refs 4th c.BC+famine, Refs; νήστισιν αἰκίαις the pains of hunger, Pr.Refs; νήστιδες δύαι Refs; also νῆστις ὀσμή the bad breath of one fasting, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 active, causing hunger, starving, πνοαὶ νήστιδες Refs 4th c.BC+
II as substantive, νῆστις, ἡ, accusative νῆστιν Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1 the intestinum jejunum, from its always being found empty, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ν. κεστρεύς, fish so called because its stomach was always found empty, Refs 5th c.BC+: hence in Comedy texts, of 'empty bellies', ἐγὼ δὲ κεστρεὺς νῆστις οἴκαδ᾽ ἀποτρέχω Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 Νῆστις, ἡ, ={ὕδωρ}, Refs 5th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nēstios | nēstias | nēstiem | nēstiois | nēstiais | nēstieim |
| object accusative | nēstion | nēstian | nēstioin2×νήστεις | nēstiain | ||
| direct address vocative | nēstior | nēstiar | nēstioir | nēstiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | nēstiou | nēstiau | nēstieu | nēstioiu | nēstiaiu | nēstieiu |
| to, for dative | nēstio | nēstia | nēstie | nēstioi | nēstiai | nēstiei |
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
nēsti 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
nēstioin“hungry”objectaccusative plural2×
Matthew 15:32… echalō tinem esthialeia; kai apoluara autoin nēstioin ouk thelamō, mēpote ekluileia en ta …… not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the …
Mark 8:3kai ean apoluameia autoin nēstioin eis oikon autoiu, ekluili en ta …If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way …