Strong's Number G3521

νηστεία

nesteia · nace-ti'-ah

Transliteration:

nesteia{nace-ti'-ah}

Word Origin:

from 3522

TDNT:

4:924,632

Part of Speech:

noun feminine

Strong's Definition:

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

Usage in the KJV:

fasting 7, feast 1

Total: 8
Occurs 5 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

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