776. asitia

Strong's Lexicon

asitia: Fasting, abstinence from food

Original Word: ἀσιτία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: asitia
Pronunciation: ah-see-TEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (as-ee-tee'-ah)
Definition: Fasting, abstinence from food
Meaning: either: lack or wheat, lack of food (the literal meaning), or: abstinence from food, a fast, loss of appetite, sea-sickness (the extended meaning).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from asitos
Definition
abstinence from food
NASB Translation
time without food (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 776: ἀσιτία

ἀσιτία, ἀσιτίας, ἡ (ἄσιτος which see), abstinence from food (whether voluntary or enforced): πολλή long, Acts 27:21. (Herodotus 3, 52; Euripides, Suppl. 1105; (Aristotle, probl. 10, 35; cth. Nic. 10, p. 1180{b}, 9); Josephus, Antiquities 12, 7; others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

abstinence.

From asitos; fasting (the state) -- abstinence.

see GREEK asitos

Forms and Transliterations

ασιτιας ασιτίας ἀσιτίας asitias asitías

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 27:21 N-GFS
GRK: Πολλῆς τε ἀσιτίας ὑπαρχούσης τότε
NAS: a long time without food, then
KJV: after long abstinence Paul stood forth
INT: much also abstinence [from food] there being then

Strong's Greek 776
1 Occurrence

ἀσιτίας — 1 Occ.