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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - νῆστις

νῆστις

G3523

Transliteration: nēstis

Pronunciation: nace'-tis

Definition: fasting


- Original: νῆστις

- Transliteration: Nestis

- Phonetic: nace'-tis

- Definition:

1. fasting, not having eaten

- Origin: from the insep. negative particle ne- (not) and G2068" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2068

- TDNT entry: 19:24,6

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From the negative particle νη nē and G2068" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2068; not eating that is abstinent from food (religiously): - fasting.


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