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
“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.””
“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).