3521 - nésteia

Strong's Concordance

Original word: νηστεία
Transliteration: nésteia
Definition (short): fasting
Definition (full): fasting, a fast

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from nésteuó
Definition: fasting, a fast
NASB Translation: fast (1), fasting (2), fastings (1), hunger (1), without food (1).
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From nesteuo; abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement -- fast(-ing).

see GREEK nesteuo

References

Strong's 3521: 6 Occurrences
KJV: Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
NASB: "But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
KJV: And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
NASB: and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.
KJV: And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
NASB: When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
KJV: Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
NASB: When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,
KJV: In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
NASB: in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,