ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑΙ, νηστειαι
NĒSTEIAI, nēsteiai
Sounds Like: nay-STAY-ah-ee
Translations: fasts, periods of fasting
From the root: ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to periods of abstaining from food, often for religious or spiritual reasons. It is used to describe the practice of fasting, which was common in ancient religious traditions as a sign of repentance, mourning, or devotion. It can be used in contexts like 'they engaged in fasts' or 'their fasts were observed'.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3521 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 8:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑ.
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.
- ΜΗΣΤΕΙΑ — fasting, a fast, abstinence
- ΜΗΣΤΕΙΑΝ — fasting, a fasting
- ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑ — fasting, a fast, abstinence
- ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑΙΣ — to fast, by fasting, with fastings, by means of fasting
- ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑΝ — fasting, a fast
- ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑΣ — of fasting, of a fast
- ΝΗΣΤΕΙΩΝ — of fasting, of a fast, of fasts
- ΝΗΣΤΙΑΙΣ — to fasting, to a fast, by fasting, by a fast
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