νυστάζω
to sleep
‘to sleep’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3573 appears in the Book of 2 Peter — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Peter
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to sleep” is the headline sense of the Greek verb νυσταζω (nystázō). With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than half of its appearances fall in Matthew. First canonically at Matthew 25:5, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3573 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Slumbered 1×, Slumbereth 1×
- American Standard Version: Slumbered 1×, Slumbereth 1×, They 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sleep 1×, They all became drowsy 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Became sleepy 1×, Does 1×, Sleep 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3573 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3573 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3573 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3573 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to nod in sleep, to sleep
- to be negligent, careless
Word origin
Derived from νευω (neúō) (G3506) — to nod.
From a presumed derivative of G3506 ; to nod that is (by implication) to fall asleep ; figuratively to delay : - slumber.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3573 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νυστάζει nystázei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Peter 2:3 | 1 |
| ἐνύσταξαν enýstaxan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 25:5 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νυσταζω appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 6 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 4:6 νυστάζω
- Psalms 75:7 νυστάζω
- Proverbs 6:10 νυστάζω
- Isaiah 5:27 νυστάζω
- Jeremiah 23:31 νυστάζω
- Nahum 3:18 νυστάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3573) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 4:6 νυστάζω They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
- Psalms 75:7 νυστάζω But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
- Psalms 120:3 νυστάζω What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, You deceitful tongue?
- Psalms 120:4 νυστάζω Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.
- Proverbs 6:10 νυστάζω A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
- Proverbs 24:33 νυστάζω A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
- Isaiah 5:27 νυστάζω None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
- Isaiah 56:10 νυστάζω His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Jeremiah 23:31 νυστάζω Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says.
- Nahum 3:18 νυστάζω Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3573) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
