νηστεία

νηστεία — nēsteía

νηστεία, νηστείας, ἡ (νηστεύω, which see), a fasting, fast, i. e. abstinence from food, and a. voluntary, as a religious exercise: of private fasting, Mat 17:21 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mar 9:29 (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets); Luk 2:37; Act 14:23; 1Co 7:5 Rec. of the public fast prescribed by the Mosaic Law (Lev 16:29 ff; Lev 23:27 ff (BB. DD. under the word, and for references to Strabo, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, see Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 1)) and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month Tisri: Act 27:9 (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October (cf. B. D. under the word (at end)); the fast, accordingly, occurred in the autumn, ἡ χειμέριος ὥρα, when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms, as was the case with the voyage referred to).

b. a fasting to which one is driven by want: 2Co 6:5; 2Co 11:27; (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, Athen., others; the Sept. for צום).