Greek semantic word

νηστεία

Transliteration: nesteia

3 lexical sense(s); 8 exact STEP occurrence token(s).

Lexical senses and semantic domains

Sense 1: to fast, fasting

to go without food for a set time as a religious duty

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003424-01
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ubs_greek_dictionary
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2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 2: to be quite hungry, considerable hunger, lack of food

the state of being very hungry, presumably for a considerable period of time and as the result of necessity rather than choice (compare νηστεα[a] ‘fasting,’ semantic domain 53.65)

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003424-02
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ubs_greek_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 3: festival of the atonement, day to commemorate the atonement of sin

a Jewish festival celebrating the forgiveness of sins on the day of atonement[source note 1]

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003424-03
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Lemma ID
SDBC-GRK-LEMMA-003424
Page model version
1.0
Direction
ltr
Domain policy
Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
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