νηστεία
nēsteia · fasting
Greek word · Strong’s number G3521 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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nēsteia (νηστεία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “fasting”.
A fast.
How to say it
nēs·tei·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Going without food; also the day of atonement when no one ate.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fastings ×3
- Fast ×1
- fasting ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 2:37
and she was a widow until she was eighty-four years old. She did not leave the temple, serving God with fastings and petitions night and day.
- Acts 14:23
And when they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, praying with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
- Acts 27:9
And when considerable time had passed and the voyage was already dangerous, because even the Fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,
- 2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings,
- 2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and toil, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.