νηστεία (nēsteia) means “fasting” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: nace-ti'-ah Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.
νηστεία · nēsteia · fasting
νηστεία, -ας, ἡ (νηστεύω), [in LXX for צוֹם ;] fasting, a fast; (a) of voluntary abstinence from food: Mat.17:21 (WH, R, txt., om.), Mrk.9:29 (WH, txt., R, txt., om.), Luk.2:37, Act.14:23; of the Day of Atonement, Act.27:9; (b) of involuntary abstinence: 2Co.6:5 11:27.† SYN.: ἀσιτία, q.v (AS)
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fasting, the day of atonement.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| fasting | 2 |
| and hunger | 1 |
| fast | 1 |
| without food | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| fasting | 3 |
| fastings | 2 |
| the fast | 1 |
| to fasting | 1 |
| with fastings | 1 |
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and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
Read word by wordPaul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
Read word by wordBy now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,
Read word by wordin beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
Read word by wordin labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
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