νηστεία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=νηστείας, ἡ ([[νηστεύω]], [[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); of the [[public]] [[fast]] prescribed by the Mosaic Law (BB. DD. [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC: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: B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, [[month]] (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).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> a [[fasting]] to [[which]] [[one]] is driven by [[want]]: [[Hippocrates]], [[Aristotle]], [[Philo]], Josephus, [[Plutarch]], Aelian, Athen., others; the Sept. for צום).