νῆστις
nēstis · hungry, fasting
Greek word · Strong’s number G3523 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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nēstis (νῆστις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hungry, fasting”.
Without food, fasting.
How to say it
nēs·tis
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Without having eaten.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- Matthew 15:32
And Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been staying with me three days already and they do not have anything to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”
- Mark 8:3
and if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from far away.”