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Strong's #3573 - νυστάζω

Transliteration
nystázō
Phonetics
noos-tad'-zo
Origin
from a presumed derivative of (G3506)
Parts of Speech
Verb
TDNT
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. to nod in sleep, to sleep
    1. to be overcome or oppressed with sleep
    2. to fall asleep, drop off to sleep
  2. to be negligent, careless
    1. of a thing i.e. to linger, delay
Hebrew Equivalent Words:
Strong #: 1811 ‑ דָּלַף (daw‑laf');  5123 ‑ נוּם (noom);  7290 ‑ רָדַם (raw‑dam');  8142 ‑ שֵׁנָא (shay‑naw', shay‑naw');  
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

νυστ-άζω,

fut. - άξω LXX Isaiah 5:27 : aor. ἐνύσταξα Thphr. Char. 7.8, LXX 2 Kings 4:6, al.; ἐνύστασα Dionys.Com. 2.43, AP 12.135 (Ascl):

1. mostly pres., to be half asleep, doze, νυστάζοντα οὐδένα ἂν ἴδοις X. Cyr. 8.3.43; ὥσπερ οἱ νυστάζοντες ἐγειρόμενοι Pl. Ap. 31a; ὀφθαλμοὶ πλέοντες ὥσπερ τῶν νυσταζόντων Hp. Epid. 7.17; οὐχὶ νυστάζειν ἔτι ὥρα []στίν Ar. Av. 639, cf. Xenarch. 2.1, Com.Adesp. 185; νυστάζοντος δικαστοῦ Pl. R. 405c: metaph., ν. τε καὶ ἀπορεῖ Id. Ion 533a; τὸν νυστάζοντα καὶ ἀμαθῆ φύσει Id. Lg. 747b; ἔν τινι in a thing, Plu. 2.675b.

2. hang the head, ἐδάκρυσεν καὶ ἐνύστασε AP l.c. (Cf. Lith. snústi (stem snúd -) 'grow drowsy'.)

Thayer's Expanded Definition

νυστάζω; 1 aorist ἐνύσταξα; (ΝΥΩ, cf. νεύω, νευστάζω); the Sept. for נוּם;

1. properly, "to nod in sleep, to sleep (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others); to be overcome or oppressed with sleep; to fall asleep, drop off to sleep," ((cf. Wycliffe) to nap it"): Matthew 25:5; the Sept. for נִרְדַּם, Psalm 75:7 ().

2. like the Latindormito (cf. our to be napping), tropical equivalent to: to be negligent, careless (Plato, Plutarch, others): of a thing equivalent to to linger, delay, 2 Peter 2:3.


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

νυστάζω

(cf. νεύω ),

[in LXX for H5123, etc;]

to nod in sleep, fall asleep: Matthew 25:5. Metaph., of negligence or delay, ἡ ἀπώλεια αὐτῶν οὐ νυστάζει (cf. Psalms 121:4, Isaiah 5:27) : 2 Peter 2:3.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

For the formation of this compound, which occurs in the NT only in Acts 18:3, but was used by medical writers as a term for physicians (Hobart, p. 239) cf. the common ὁμοπάτριος and ὁμομήτριος (e.g. P Fay 32.8 f., A.D. 131), and the courtesy title ὁμότιμος (τοῖς συγγενέσι) (e.g. P Tebt I. 254, c.B.C. 113).

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
ενυσταξαν ενύσταξαν ἐνύσταξαν ενύσταξε ενύσταξεν νυσταζει νυστάζει νυστάζεις νυστάζοντας νυστάζω νυστάξαι νυστάξει νυστάξη νυστάξουσιν enustaxan enystaxan enýstaxan nustazei nystazei nystázei
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