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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 Box 2Sa 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David therefore sought God about the boy; and David fasted and went and spent the night lying on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9 - And she wrote in the letters, saying, “Call for a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12 - They called for a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3 - And Jehoshaphat was afraid and [fn]set his face to seek Yahweh, and called for a fast throughout all Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 -

Then I called for a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a [fn]direct journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 -

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel gathered with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 -

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;

I humbled my soul with fasting,

And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10 -

When I wept in my soul with fasting,

It became my reproach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 -

My knees are feeble from fasting,

And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 -

“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New moon and sabbath, the calling of convocation—

I cannot endure wickedness and the solemn assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3 -

‘Why have we fasted and You do not see?

Why have we afflicted our souls and You do not know?’

Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire,

And oppress all your workers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 -

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to afflict himself?

Is it for bowing [fn]one’s head like a reed

And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?

Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Yahweh?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 -

“Is this not the fast which I choose,

To loosen the bonds of wickedness,

To release the bands of [fn]the yoke,

And to let the oppressed go free

And break every [fn]yoke?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - “So you shall go and read from the scroll, which you have written [fn]at my dictation, the words of Yahweh [fn]in the hearing of the people in the house of Yahweh on a fast day. And also you shall read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who come from their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 -

Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem called for a fast before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - So I gave my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 -

Set apart a fast as holy,

Call for a solemn assembly;

Gather the elders

And all the inhabitants of the land

To the house of Yahweh your God,

And cry out to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12 -

“Yet even now,” declares Yahweh,

“Return to Me with all your heart

And with fasting, weeping, and [fn]wailing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:15

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Blow a trumpet in Zion,

Set apart a fast as holy, call for a solemn assembly,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 -

And the [fn]people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5 - “Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [fn]these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:19 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and [fn]merry appointed feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.’
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