| Lexical Summary episitismos: provisionsOriginal Word: ἐπισιτισμός Transliteration: episitismos Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-sit-is-mos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: provisions Meaning: provisions Strong's Concordancefood, 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 LexiconSTRONGS NT 1979: ἐπισιτισμός ἐπισιτισμός, 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). | 



