Strong’s G3521 · Greek
νηστεία
nēsteía · nace-ti'-ah
Origin from νηστεύω (G3522);
Meaning abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
In the King James Version fast(-ing).
In 8 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 17:21Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
- Mark 9:29And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
- Luke 2:37And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
- Acts 14:23And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
- Acts 27:9Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
- 1 Corinthians 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
- 2 Corinthians 6:5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
- 2 Corinthians 11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.