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Notes: The festival of νηστεία involved avoidance of certain foods (compare νηστεία[a] fast, 53.65: νηστεία / 53.65: νηστεύω) but not complete abstinence from food.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: νηστεία; -ας

Related lemmas: νηστεύω

Sense 1: to fast, fasting

Semantic entry: 53.65

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Fasting

Definition: to go without food for a set time as a religious duty

LUK 2:37: RV LUK 2:37 · LV LUK 2:37 · Read together LUK 2:37

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37 and then had been widowed for eighty-four years. She was always at the temple, serving night and day in prayer and fasting.

OET-LV LUK 2:37

37 and she was a_widow until eighty four years, who not was _withdrawing from _the temple, with _fastings and petitions serving night and day.

ACT 14:23: RV ACT 14:23 · LV ACT 14:23 · Read together ACT 14:23

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23 They appointed some elders for each assembly, then they fasted and prayed for the elders—asking the master that they believed in to look after them.

OET-LV ACT 14:23

23 And having _chosen elders for _them in assembly, having _prayed with fastings, they _entrusted them to _the master on whom they _had _believed.

Sense 2: to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food

Semantic entry: 23.31

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Eat, Drink

Definition: the state of being very hungry, presumably for a considerable period of time and as the result of necessity rather than choice (compare νηστεία[a] ‘fasting,’ 53.65: νηστεία / 53.65: νηστεύω)

Notes: Terms referring to hunger often distinguish varying degrees of hunger and whether the hunger is by necessity or by choice.

CO2 6:5: RV CO2 6:5 · LV CO2 6:5 · Read together CO2 6:5

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5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labours, sleepless nights, hunger,

OET-LV CO2 6:5

5 in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

CO2 11:27: RV CO2 11:27 · LV CO2 11:27 · Read together CO2 11:27

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27 I’ve worked often and worked hard, often needing to keep guard, suffered famine and thirst, fasted often, and been cold and lacking clothing.

OET-LV CO2 11:27

27 in _labour and hardship, in watchings often, in famine and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Sense 3: festival of the atonement, day to commemorate the atonement of sin

Semantic entry: 51.11

Semantic domains: Festivals

Definition: a Jewish festival celebrating the forgiveness of sins on the day of atonement{N:001}

Notes: The Day of Atonement in the Jewish calendar occurs in the fall, a time which is particularly dangerous to small ships in the Mediterranean. In biblical times, small merchant ships normally stayed in a harbor over the winter months.

ACT 27:9: RV ACT 27:9 · LV ACT 27:9 · Read together ACT 27:9

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OET-RV ACT 27:9

9 A lot of time had now elapsed and the voyage was starting to become dangerous because we were already heading into winter. Paulos advised those in charge,

OET-LV ACT 27:9

9 And much time having _elapsed, and the voyage already being dangerous, because _of that even the fasting already to _have _passed _by, the Paulos was _advising them

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

νηστεία

Form 1

Sense 1: to fast, fasting

Sense 2: to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food

Sense 3: festival of the atonement, day to commemorate the atonement of sin