# G3521 νηστεία

νηστεία (nēsteía), Strong’s G3521: abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement KJV: fast(-ing). Occurs 35 times.

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*nēsteía* — abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement

KJV: fast(-ing)

Derived from [νηστεύω nēsteúō](https://besorah.bible/word/G3522) (to abstain from food)

Occurs 35 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 2:37](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/2?v=37) — and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and…
- [Acts 14:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/14?v=23) — When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord…
- [Acts 27:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/27?v=9) — When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished…
- [2 Corinthians 6:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/6?v=5) — in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
- [2 Corinthians 11:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/11?v=27) — in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
- [1 Esdras 8:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/8?v=50) — 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…
- [1 Esdras 8:73](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/8?v=73) — Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment torn, and bowing my knees and stretching out my hands…
- [Tobit 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/tobit/12?v=8) — Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with…
- [2 Maccabees 13:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/13?v=12) — So when they had all done the same thing together, begging the merciful Lord with weeping and fastings and prostration…