{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G3521",
  "lemma": "νηστεία",
  "transliteration": "nēsteía",
  "definition": "abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement",
  "kjv": "fast(-ing)",
  "occurrences": 35,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G3522",
      "lemma": "νηστεύω",
      "transliteration": "nēsteúō",
      "meaning": "to abstain from food",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Luke 2:37",
      "text": "and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/2?v=37"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 14:23",
      "text": "When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/14?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 27:9",
      "text": "When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/27?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Corinthians 6:5",
      "text": "in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/6?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Corinthians 11:27",
      "text": "in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/11?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Esdras 8:50",
      "text": "There I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to seek from him a prosperous journey both for us and for our…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/8?v=50"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Esdras 8:73",
      "text": "Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment torn, and bowing my knees and stretching out my hands…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/8?v=73"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Tobit 12:8",
      "text": "Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/tobit/12?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Maccabees 13:12",
      "text": "So when they had all done the same thing together, begging the merciful Lord with weeping and fastings and prostration…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/13?v=12"
    }
  ],
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
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  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
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