Original Word: νυστάζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: nustazó
Phonetic Spelling: (noos-tad'-zo)
Short Definition: I nod in sleep, am drowsy, slumber
Definition: I nod in sleep, am drowsy, slumber.STRONGS NT 3573: νυστάζω

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.

slumber.

From a presumed derivative of neuo; to nod, i.e. (by implication) to fall asleep; figuratively, to delay -- slumber.

see GREEK neuo

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