G3521 – nesteia – νηστεία – fast(-ing
- Strong’s ID:
- G3521
- Greek Word:
- νηστεία
- Transliteration:
- nesteia
- Pronunciation:
- nace-ti’-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 8
- Search:
- Find “nesteia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G3522; abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specifically, the fast of the Day of Atonement:—fast(-ing.).
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a fasting, fast
1a) a voluntary, as a religious exercise
1a1) of private fasting
1a2) the public fast as prescribed by the Mosaic Law and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month of Tisri (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October); the fast accordingly, occurred in the autumn when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms
1b) a fasting caused by want or poverty
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.