Lexical Summary nēstis: not eating Original Word: νῆστιςTransliteration: nēstis Phonetic Spelling: (nace'-tis) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: not eating Meaning: not eating Strong's Concordance fasting. From the inseparable negative particle ne- (not) and esthio; not eating, i.e. Abstinent from food (religiously) -- fasting. see GREEK esthio Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3523: νῆστιςνῆστις, accusative plural νήστεις and (so Tdf. (cf. Proleg., p. 1183) νῆστις (see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 326; Fritzsche, Commentary on Mark, p. 796f; cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 157b); Buttmann, 26 (23)), ὁ, ἡ (from νή and ἐσθίω, see νήπιος), fasting, not having eaten: Matthew 15:32; Mark 8:3. (Homer, Aeschylus, Hippocrates ( |
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