Limitless Word
νηστείαnēsteía
GreekG35218 occurrences (KJV)

abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement

KJV renders it: fast(-ing)

Where it appears

  • Matt 17:21But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”
  • Mark 9:29He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”
  • Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
  • Acts 14:23When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
  • Acts 27:9When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,
  • 1 Cor 7:5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • 2 Cor 6:5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
  • 2 Cor 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.