of fifteen days

πεντεκαιδεχήμερος

of fifteen days: masc /fem acc pl

πεντεκαι-δεχήμερος, ον,

A of fifteen days,

ἀνοχαί Plb.18.34.5

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δέκα indecl. ten (Hom.+; loanw. in rabb.; Jos., Bell. 2, 146 as a round number; Ath. 6, 1 μέγιστος ἀριθμὸς … ὁ δέκα πυθαγορικούς) Mt 20:24; 25:1, 28; Mk 10:41; Lk 15:8; 17:12, 17; 19:15, 16f, 24f. ἐν δ. χιλιάσεν 14:31; δ. ἀπόστολοι Ac 2:14 D; ἡμέρας … ὀκτὼ ἢ δ. 25:6; θλῖψιν ἡμερῶν δ. Rv 2:10 (ten days as a relatively short period of time as Gen 24:55; Da 1:12, 14); horns 12:3; 13:1; 17:3, 7, 12, 16 (Da 7:7, 20, 24); soldiers IRo 5:1; kingdoms B 4:4f (Da 7:24, 7); cp. Rv 17:12; δ. λόγοι the Ten Commandments (Ex 34:28; Dt 10:4) B 15:1.— δεκαδύο (ins in Meisterhans³-Schw. p. 159; Schweizer 164; Nachmanson 147; pap in Mayser 316; Polyb., Plut., EpArist, Joseph., LXX; TestJob 15:4) twelve Ac 19:7; 24:11 both v.l.; B 8:3; GEb 34, 62 (cp. Just., A I, 39, 3 ἄνδρες δ.).—δεκαέξ, expressed var. (ins, pap, LXX, Strabo 2, 5, 42): ἦν ἐτῶν ιϚ´ (δέκα ἓξ most codd., δέκα ἑπτά H; cp. TestJob 26:1) was sixteen years of age GJs 12:3. For ἑξακόσιαι δεκαέξ or ἑξακόσιαι δέκα ἕξ six hundred and sixteen Rv 13:18 v.l. see Dssm., LO 237 (=LAE 276–78; s. M-M s.v. δεκαέξ) and L-S-J-M s.v. δέκα.— δεκαοκτώ (ins in Meisterhans³-Schw. 161 and Schweizer 165; Cleonides [II A.D.], Introductio Harmonica 2; pap, LXX; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 230; TestJud 9:2; ApcMos 1) eighteen Lk 13:4, 11 (16 δ. καὶ ὀκτώ as JosAs 27:2; s. Thackeray 188); B 9:8 (Jos., Ant. 1, 178).— δεκαπέντε (ins in Meisterhans³-Schw. 160, 12; pap in Mayser 316; Polyb., Diod S, Plut., Joseph., LXX; ParJer 7:7; GrBar 4:10; πέντε καὶ δέκα ἐτῶν TestAbr B 9 p. 113, 19 [Stone p. 74]) fifteen J 11:18; Ac 27:5 v.l., 28; Gal 1:18 (ἡμ. δεκ. means our two weeks as Appian, Liby. 108 §507 [πεντεκαίδεκα ἡμ.]; Jos., Ant. 13, 427; Beros[s]us 680: Fgm. 8 [140] p. 390, 15 Jac. [in Jos., C. Ap. 1, 140]; OGI 210, 7 [247/48]).— δεκατέσσαρες (ins in Schweizer 165; OGI 672, 13; pap in Mayser 316; Polyb., Diod S, Strabo, Plut., Joseph., LXX; TestAbr A 17 p. 99, 18 [Stone p. 46]; TestJob 25:1; TestIss 1:10) fourteen Mt 1:17 (on the numerical difficulties here s. HSchöllig, ZNW 59, ’68, 261–68); 2 Cor 12:2; Gal 2:1 (LDieu, Quatorze ans ou quatre ans?: ETL 14, ’37, 308–17; PFriesenhahn, Hellenistische Wortzahlenmystik, ’35).—DELG s.v. δέκα. DELG s.v. δέκα. M-M. TW.

νηστεύω pres. ptc. fem. pl. by-form νηστέουσαι (AcPl Ha 5, 19f); fut. νηστεύσω; 1 aor. ἐνήστευσα, inf. νηστεῦσαι, impv. νηστεύσατε, ptc. νηστεύσας; pf. 2 pl. νενηστεύκατε Zech 7:5 (Aristoph.; Aristot.; Plut., Mor. 626f; Aelian, VH 5, 20; LXX; Test12Patr; ApcEsdr 1:3 p. 24, 9 Tdf. and oft.; Philo, Spec. Leg. 2, 197; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 308; Ar. [Milne 76, verso 1]; Just.) to fast as a devotional rite, among Jews and Christians: as a sign of grief (2 Km 1:12; 12:22; Zech 7:5; Bar 1:5) Mt 9:15 v.l.; Mk 2:19f; Lk 5:34f (cp. ν. ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ Judg 20:26; 1 Km 7:6); 7:5; AcPl Ha 5, 19f; GPt 7:27. Moses B 4:7; 14:2 (for the idea cp. Ex 34:28) and Jesus (Iren. 3, 22, 2 [Harv. II 122, 6]; Did., Gen. 190, 13) Mt 4:2 fast for forty days and forty nights (cp. 1 Km 31:13; 1 Ch 10:12 ν. ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας; Marinus, Vi. Procli 19 Boiss. τινὰς ν. ἡμέρας). With lamentation 7:5. Of Joseph GJs 1:4. As preparation for prayer (Jos., Ant. 20, 89) Hv 3, 10, 6; for baptism D 7:4 (on fasting before being received into the Gr.-Rom. mystery cults s. Knopf, Hdb. ad loc.). W. προσεύχεσθαι (cp. Bar 1:5) Ac 13:3. W. δέομαι Hv 3, 1, 2. W. εὐχαριστεῖν 5, 1, 1. To increase the power of his prayer, Hermas fasts μίαν ἡμέραν for one whole day 3, 10, 7; a fifteen-day fast 2, 2, 1. His fast consists in taking only bread and water Hs 5, 3, 7. W. λειτουργεῖν τῷ κυρίῳ Ac 13:2 (EPeterson, Nuntius 2, ’49, 9f). Jesus and his disciples do not fast Mt 9:14; Mk 2:18; Lk 5:33 (HEbeling, D. Fastenfrage [Mk 2:18–22]: StKr 108, ’37/38, 387–96, but s. KSchäfer, Synopt. Studien [Wikenhauser Festschr.], ’53, 124–47; FCremer, D. Fastenansage Jesu, ’65). Right and wrong attitudes in fasting Mt 6:16–18. ν. νηστείαν observe a fast Hs 5, 1, 2f (s. νηστεία 2b). ν. τῷ θεῷ νηστείαν 5, 1, 4b; opp. ὸ̔ς ἂν μὴ νηστεύσῃ τὴν νηστείαν, θανάτῳ ἐξολεθρευθήσεται one who does not observe the fast-day shall pay the penalty of death 7:3 (s. νηστεία 2b). ν. τῷ θεῷ Hs 5, 1, 3; 5, 1, 4a; cp. 3:1 (Is 58:4). As an act pleasing to God (Hs 5, 3, 7), w. the pers. given, who is to profit from it: νηστεύετε ὑπὲρ τῶν διωκόντων ὑμᾶς fast for those who persecute you D 1:3 (where Mt 5:44 has προσεύχεσθε.—Knopf, Hdb. ad loc.). Pious Israelites used to fast twice a week Lk 18:12, on Monday and Thursday (s. Schürer II 483f; Elbogen 126f; 225f; 533; 551; Billerb. on Lk 18:12), the Christians on Wednesday and Friday D 8:1.—ν. τὸν κόσμον Ox 1, verso 5–6 (ASyn. 54, 22; cp. GTh 27) has not yet been satisfactorily explained. Could it be taken fig. abstain from the world (see s.v. νηστεία 2b on Hs 5, 3, 6 and cp. Empedocles in Plut., Mor. 464b [Vorsokrat. I⁵ 369, 17] νηστεῦσαι κακότητος; LWright, JBL 65, ’46, 180)?—B. 1483. DELG s.v. 1 νῆστις. M-M. EDNT. TW.