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Lexicon :: Strong's G3521 - nēsteia

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νηστεία
Transliteration
nēsteia (Key)
Pronunciation
nace-ti'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:924,632

Strong’s Definitions

νηστεία nēsteía, nace-ti'-ah; from G3522; abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement:—fast(-ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G3521 in the following manner: fasting (7x), feast (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G3521 in the following manner: fasting (7x), feast (1x).

  1. a fasting, fast

    1. a voluntary, as a religious exercise

      1. of private fasting

      2. the public fast as prescribed by the Mosaic Law and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month of Tisri (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October); the fast accordingly, occurred in the autumn when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms

    2. a fasting caused by want or poverty

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
νηστεία nēsteía, nace-ti'-ah; from G3522; abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement:—fast(-ing).
STRONGS G3521:
νηστεία, νηστείας, ἡ (νηστεύω, which see), a fasting, fast, i. e. abstinence from food, and
a. voluntary, as a religious exercise: of private fasting, Matthew 17:21 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mark 9:29 (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets); Luke 2:37; Acts 14:23; 1 Corinthians 7:5 Rec. of the public fast prescribed by the Mosaic Law (Leviticus 16:29ff; 23:27ff (BB. DD. under the word, and for references to Strabo, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, see Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 1)) and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month Tisri: Acts 27:9 (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October (cf. B. D. under the word (at end)); the fast, accordingly, occurred in the autumn, ἡ χειμέριος ὥρα, when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms, as was the case with the voyage referred to).
b. a fasting to which one is driven by want: 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:27; (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, Athen., others; the Sept. for צום).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
16:29; 23:27
Matthew
17:21
Mark
9:29
Luke
2:37
Acts
14:23; 27:9
1 Corinthians
7:5
2 Corinthians
6:5; 11:27

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3521 matches the Greek νηστεία (nēsteia),
which occurs 26 times in 22 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - And David enquired of God concerning the child, and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9 - (LXX 20:9) And [fn]it was written in the letters, saying, Keep a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12 - (LXX 20:12) And they [fn]proclaimed a fast, and set Nabuthai in a chief place among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3 - And Josaphat was alarmed, and set his face to seek the Lord earnestly, and he proclaimed a fast in all Juda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - And I proclaimed there a fast, at the river Aüe, that we should humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our children, and for all our property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 - Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel assembled with fasting, and in sackcloths, and with ashes on their head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - (LXX 34:13) But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my own bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10 - (LXX 68:11) And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - (LXX 108:24) My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the want of oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3 - saying, Why have we fasted, and thou regardest not? why have we afflicted our souls, and thou didst not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts ye find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power ye wound.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - I have not chosen this fast, nor such a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though thou shouldest bend down thy neck as a ring, and spread under thee sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall ye call a fast acceptable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - I have not chosen such a fast, saith the Lord; but do thou loose every burden of iniquity, do thou untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - (LXX 43:6) so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - (LXX 43:9) And it came to pass in the eighth year of king Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Juda, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek him diligently by prayer and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 - Sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12 - Now therefore, saith the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15 - Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a [fn]solemn service:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5 - Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh months (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all fasted to me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:19 - Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Juda for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and ye shall rejoice; and love ye the truth and peace.
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