Fasting

Usually translated “fastings”, “fasting” and “fast”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• with fastings 3
• fastings 2
• fasting 1
• fast 1
• to fastings 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 2
• 2 Corinthians 2
• Matthew 1
• Mark 1
• Luke 1
• 1 Corinthians 1

6 books in all.

• Fast (tsom)
• To fast (nēsteuō)
• Fasting (tevat)
• Fasting (nēstis)

• Mark 9:29And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
• Luke 2:37And 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.
• Acts 14:23And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
• Acts 27:9Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
• 1 Corinthians 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
• 2 Corinthians 6:5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “fasting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.