Strong's Greek · G3521
νηστεία
nēsteía
fast(-ing)
Definition
abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
Derivation
from G3522 (νηστεύω);
Appears 5 times in Scripture
“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.”
“and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.”
“By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,”
“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;”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).