Word Summary
episitismos: provisions
Original Word: ἐπισιτισμόςTransliteration: episitismos
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-sit-is-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: provisions
Meaning: provisions
Strong's Concordance
food, provisions
From a compound of epi and a derivative of sitos; a provisioning, i.e. (concretely) food -- victuals.
see GREEK epi
see GREEK sitos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1979: ἐπισιτισμόςἐπισιτισμός,
ἐπισιτισμοῦ,
ὁ (
ἐπιστίζομαι to provision oneself);
1. a foraging, providing food (Xenophon, Plutarch, others).
2. supplies, provisions, food (A. V. victuals): Luke 9:12 (the Sept., Xenophon, Demosthenes, Herodian, others).