ἈΣΙΤΟΥΝΤΕΣ, ἀσιτουντες
ASITOUNTES, asitountes
Sounds Like: ah-see-TOON-tes
Translations: fasting, abstaining from food, not eating
From the root: ἈΣΙΤΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb 'ἀσιτέω'. It describes someone who is abstaining from food or not eating. It can be used to describe a state of fasting or simply a lack of food intake.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine, Plural, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G0794 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Maccabees — 3:17
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΙΤΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΣΙΤΗΣΟΜΕΝ — we will fast, we will abstain from food
- ἈΣΙΤΟΥΝΤΑ — fasting, without food, abstaining from food
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.