Fasting
טְוָתStrong’s H2908tevat (te-vat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tevat is the Aramaic word usually translated “fasting”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.”
Meaning
- Fasting, fastingly, hungrily
How it's translated
- fasting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
טְוָת tevat · fasting
fasting, fastingly, hungrily
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fasting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
F'ASTING, participle present
tense Abstaining from food.
All definitions and other forms of “fasting”
F'ASTING, noun
The act of abstaining from food.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.