Greek noun (feminine) · G3521
νηστεία
nesteianace-ti'-ah
fasting
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nēsteía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3521is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3521
abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
The King James renders it: fast(-ing).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nesteia is rendered "fasting". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 2:37and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
Luke 2:37νηστείαις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- fastings2
- Fast1
- fasting1
- with fastings1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- νηστείαις3
- νηστείαν1
- νηστειῶν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural3N-DPF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1N-GPF
Luke
one use
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
- νηστείαιςnesteiaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: with fastings
Acts
two uses
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
- νηστειῶνnesteionnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: fasting
By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,
- νηστείανnesteiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Fast
2 Corinthians
two uses
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
- νηστείαιςnesteiaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: fastings
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
- νηστείαιςnesteiaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: fastings
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.