νηστεία
nēsteia
“fasting”
Definition
abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
from G3522 (νηστεύω);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
νηστεία appears 8 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,
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