# G3522 νηστεύω

νηστεύω (nēsteúō), Strong’s G3522: to abstain from food (religiously) KJV: fast. Occurs 44 times.

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*nēsteúō* — to abstain from food (religiously)

KJV: fast

Derived from [νῆστις nēstis](https://besorah.bible/word/G3523) (not eating, i.e. abstinent from food)

Occurs 44 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 4:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/4?v=2) — When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
- [Matthew 6:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=16) — “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be…
- [Matthew 6:17](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=17) — But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
- [Matthew 6:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=18) — 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…
- [Matthew 9:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=14) — Then Yochanan’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
- [Matthew 9:15](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=15) — Yeshua said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will…
- [Mark 2:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=18) — Yochanan’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do Yochanan’s disciples and the…
- [Mark 2:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=19) — Yeshua said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom…
- [Mark 2:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=20) — But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
- [Luke 5:33](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/5?v=33) — They said to him, “Why do Yochanan’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but…