Matthew 4:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ νηστεύσας ἡμέρας τεσσαράκοντα καὶ νύκτας τεσσαράκοντα, ὕστερον ἐπείνασεν.

Transliteration

And nēsteusas hēmeras tessarakonta and nuktas tessarakonta, husteron epeinasen.

Grammar Details

• *nēsteusas*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having fasted
• *hēmeras*: accusative, feminine, plural - days [object of time]
• *tessarakonta*: numeral - forty
• *nuktas*: accusative, feminine, plural - nights [object of time]
• *husteron*: adverb - afterward/later
• *epeinasen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - he hungered/became hungry

Word Meanings

• *nēsteusas*: having fasted/after fasting
• *husteron*: afterward/later/finally
• *epeinasen*: he hungered/became hungry/was famished

Referenced Verses

• Exod 34:28 : 28 And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
• 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
• Deut 9:9 : 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
• Deut 9:18 : 18 And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
• John 4:6 : 6 and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
• Heb 2:14-17 : 14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily not to angels doth he give help, but he giveth help to the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
• Exod 24:18 : 18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
• Deut 9:25 : 25 So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
• Deut 18:18 : 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
• Matt 21:18 : 18 Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered.
• Mark 11:12 : 12 And on the morrow, when they were come out from Bethany, he hungered.
• Luke 4:2 : 2 during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing {G3762} in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.