Fasting

Ezra 8:21

²¹ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

²² For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

Ezra 8:23

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

Nehemiah 1:4

⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

Nehemiah 9:1

¹ Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

Esther 4:3

³ And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Psalms 35:13

¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Psalms 69:10

¹⁰ When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

Psalms 109:24

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Isaiah 58:3

³ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Isaiah 58:4

⁴ Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Isaiah 58:5

⁵ Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Isaiah 58:6

⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:7

⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Isaiah 58:8

⁸ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Isaiah 58:9

⁹ Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Isaiah 58:10

¹⁰ And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Isaiah 58:11

¹¹ And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Isaiah 58:12

¹² And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Jeremiah 36:6

⁶ Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

Daniel 9:3

³ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

Daniel 10:2

² In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

Daniel 10:3

³ I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Daniel 6:18

¹⁸ Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

Joel 2:12

¹² Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Joel 2:13

¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Jonah 3:5

⁵ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Jonah 3:6

⁶ For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:7

⁷ And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

Jonah 3:8

⁸ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Matthew 6:16

¹⁶ Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, you, They have their reward.

Matthew 6:17

¹⁷ But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

Matthew 6:18

¹⁸ That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. openly.

Matthew 9:14

¹⁴ Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

Matthew 9:15

¹⁵ And Jesus said unto them, Can Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

Matthew 15:32

³² Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Matthew 17:21

²¹ Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Mark 8:3

³ And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

Mark 9:29

²⁹ And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

Luke 5:33

³³ And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

Luke 5:34

³⁴ And he said unto them, them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

Luke 5:35

³⁵ But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

Acts 13:3

³ And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Acts 10:30

³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Acts 14:23

²³ And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

Acts 27:33

³³ And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

Acts 27:34

³⁴ Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

1 Corinthians 7:5

⁵ Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Strong's Number G777

Strong's Number:

G777

Greek:

ἄσιτος

Transliteration:

asitos

Pronunciation:

as'-ee-tos

Part of Speech:

Adjective

Strong's Definition:

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G4621; without (taking) food:--fasting.

IPD Definition:

fasting, without having eaten

Strong's Number G777 Bible Verses

Strong's Number G3521

Strong's Number:

G3521

Greek:

νηστεία

Transliteration:

nesteia

Pronunciation:

nace-ti'-ah

Part of Speech:

Noun Feminine

Strong's Definition:

from G3522; abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement:-- fast(-ing).

IPD 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

Strong's Number G3521 Bible Verses

Strong's Number G3522

Strong's Number:

G3522

Greek:

νηστεύω

Transliteration:

nesteuo

Pronunciation:

nace-tyoo'-o

Part of Speech:

Verb

Strong's Definition:

from G3523; to abstain from food (religiously):--fast.

IPD Definition:

to abstain as a religious exercise from food and drink: either entirely, if the fast lasted but a single day, or from customary and choice nourishment, if it continued several days

Strong's Number G3522 Bible Verses

Strong's Number G3523

Strong's Number:

G3523

Greek:

νῆστις

Transliteration:

nestis

Pronunciation:

nace'-tis

Part of Speech:

Noun Feminine

Strong's Definition:

from the inseparable negative particle ne- (not) and G2068; not eating, i.e. abstinent from food (religiously):--fasting.

IPD Definition:

fasting, not having eaten

Strong's Number G3523 Bible Verses

Strong's Number H2908

Strong's Number:

H2908

Aramaic:

טְוָת

Transliteration:

tvath

Pronunciation:

tev-awth'

Part of Speech:

Adverb

Strong's Definition:

(Aramaic) from a root corresponding to H2901; hunger (as twisting):--fasting.

IPD Definition:

fasting, fastingly, hungrily

Strong's Number H2908 Bible Verses

Strong's Number H6685

Strong's Number:

H6685

Hebrew:

צוֹם

Transliteration:

tsowm

Pronunciation:

tsome

Part of Speech:

Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition:

or tsom {tsome}; from from H6684; a fast: --fast(-ing).

IPD Definition:

fast, fasting

Strong's Number H6685 Bible Verses

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