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νηστεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηστεία

Structure: νηστει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from nhsteu/w

Sense

  1. a fast

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ παντοκράτωρ. νηστεία ἡ τετρὰσ καὶ νηστεία ἡ πέμπτη καὶ νηστεία ἡ ἑβδόμη καὶ νηστεία ἡ δεκάτη ἔσονται τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰούδα εἰσ χαρὰν καὶ εὐφροσύνην καὶ εἰσ ἑορτὰσ ἀγαθάσ, καὶ εὐφρανθήσεσθε, καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ τὴν εἰρήνην ἀγαπήσατε. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 8:19)
  • ὁ Ματθίασ ἱερώμενοσ ἐν νυκτὶ τῇ φερούσῃ εἰσ ἡμέραν, ᾗ ἡ νηστεία ἐνίστατο, ἔδοξεν ἐν ὀνείρατι ὡμιληκέναι [γυναικί], καὶ διὰ τόδε οὐ δυναμένου ἱερουργεῖν Ιὤσηποσ ὁ τοῦ Ἐλλήμου συνιεράσατο αὐτῷ συγγενὴσ ὤν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 197:2)
  • ΚΑΙ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ εἰκοστῇ καὶ τετάρτῃ τοῦ μηνὸσ τούτου συνήχθησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐν νηστείᾳ καὶ ἐν σάκκοισ καὶ σποδῷ ἐπὶ κεφαλῆσ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 9:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν τῷ αὐτοὺσ παρενοχλεῖν μοι ἐνεδυόμην σάκκον καὶ ἐταπείνουν ἐν νηστείᾳ τὴν ψυχήν μου, καὶ ἡ προσευχή μου εἰσ κόλπον μου ἀποστραφήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 34:13)
  • καὶ συνεκάλυψα ἐν νηστείᾳ τὴν ψυχήν μου, καὶ ἐγενήθη εἰσ ὀνειδισμοὺσ ἐμοί. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 68:11)
  • καὶ νῦν λέγει Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ ὑμῶν. ἐπιστράφητε πρόσ με ἐξ ὅλησ τῆσ καρδίασ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐν νηστείᾳ καὶ ἐν κλαυθμῷ καὶ ἐν κοπετῷ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 2:12)

Synonyms

  1. a fast

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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