Matthew 4:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

📖 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 the LORD 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 meat 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 the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
• Deut 9:18 : 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• John 4:6 : 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the well: [and] it was about the sixth hour.
• Heb 2:14-17 : 14 ¶ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
• Exod 24:18 : 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
• Deut 9:25 : 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD 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 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 into the city, he hungered.
• Mark 11:12 : 12 ¶ And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
• Luke 4:2 : 2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.