Strong's Greek · G3523

νῆστις

nēstis

fasting

Definition

not eating, i.e. abstinent from food (religiously)

Derivation

from the inseparable negative particle (not) and G2068 (ἐσθίω);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Matthew 15:32

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”

Mark 8:3

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

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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).

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