Definition

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

Etymology

from G3522 (νηστεύω);

Word family

• νηστεύω nēsteúō

How the KJV renders it

• fast(-ing)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.