ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑ, νηστεια
NĒSTEIA, nēsteia
Sounds Like: nees-TEH-yah
Translations: fasting, a fast, abstinence
From the root: ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of abstaining from food, often for religious or spiritual reasons. It is commonly used in contexts of spiritual discipline, repentance, or preparation for prayer. It can also refer to a specific period of time during which one fasts.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3521 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 6:166
Justin Martyr
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 16:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
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
- ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑΙ — fasts, periods of fasting
- 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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