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Strong's #3573 - νυστάζω
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- to nod in sleep, to sleep
- to be overcome or oppressed with sleep
- to fall asleep, drop off to sleep
- to be negligent, careless
- of a thing i.e. to linger, delay
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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'.)
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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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.†
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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).
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