Fasting
תַּעֲנִיתStrong’s H8589taanit (ta-a-nit)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Taanit is the Hebrew word usually translated “from humiliation my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,”
Meaning
- Humiliation (by fasting), ascetic practice of fasting
How it's translated
- from humiliation my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
תַּעֲנִית taanit · fasting
humiliation (by fasting), ascetic practice of fasting
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.