Strong's Number 3521
Transliteration:
nesteia
{nace-ti'-ah}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
4:924,632
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
fasting 7, feast 1
Total: 8
Definition:
- a fasting, fast
- a voluntary, as a religious exercise
- of private fasting
- 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
- a fasting caused by want or poverty