{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G3522",
  "lemma": "νηστεύω",
  "transliteration": "nēsteúō",
  "definition": "to abstain from food (religiously)",
  "kjv": "fast",
  "occurrences": 44,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G3523",
      "lemma": "νῆστις",
      "transliteration": "nēstis",
      "meaning": "not eating, i.e. abstinent from food",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G3523"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 4:2",
      "text": "When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/4?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 6:16",
      "text": "“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 6:17",
      "text": "But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 6:18",
      "text": "so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 9:14",
      "text": "Then Yochanan’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 9:15",
      "text": "Yeshua said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 2:18",
      "text": "Yochanan’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do Yochanan’s disciples and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 2:19",
      "text": "Yeshua said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 2:20",
      "text": "But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 5:33",
      "text": "They said to him, “Why do Yochanan’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/5?v=33"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G3522",
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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"
}