νηστεία

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nhsteiva",
hJ (
nhsteuvw, which see), a fasting, fast, i. e. abstinence from food, and a. voluntary, as a religious exercise: of private fasting, (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets); ; ; Rec. of the public fast prescribed by the Mosaic Law (ff; ff (BB. DD. under the word Fasts, 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: (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October (cf. B. D. under the word month (at end)); the fast, accordingly, occurred in the autumn,
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ceimevrio"
w{ra, 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: ; ; (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, Athen., others; the Septuagint for !/x).*