νηστεία
nēsteía
“abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement”
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Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
fasting, want of food, 2 Cor. 6:5; 11:27; a fast, religious abstinence from food, Mt. 17:21; Lk. 2:37; spc. the annual public fast of the Jews, the great day of atonement, occurring in the month Tisri, corresponding to the new moon of October, Acts 27:9*
Translated in KJV as
fast(-ing)
Etymology
from G3522 (νηστεύω);
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