KJV dictionary & concordance

fast

Meaning of “fast”

Sense 1: Firm, fixed, or secure. Sense 2: Moving quickly. Sense 3: A period or act of abstaining from food. Sense 4: To abstain from food for a time.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893

85 occurrences74 verses30 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 20:18

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Every verse containing “fast”

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Jonah 1:5

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Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading

1611 witness · Jonah 1:5 · retained source text

Then the Mariners were afraid, and cried euery man vnto his god, and cast foorth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: but Ionah was gone downe into the sides of the ship, and hee lay, and was fast asleepe.

Jonah 3:5

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¶ 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.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Jonah 3:5 · retained source text

¶ So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them euen to the least of them.

1611 marginal noteMatth.12.41. luke 11.32.

Complete reference index — all 74 verses

Genesis 20:18 Judges 4:21 Judges 15:13 Judges 16:11 Ruth 2:8 Ruth 2:21 Ruth 2:23 2 Samuel 12:21 2 Samuel 12:23 1 Kings 21:9 1 Kings 21:12 2 Kings 6:32 2 Chronicles 20:3 Ezra 5:8 Ezra 8:21 Esther 4:16 Job 2:3 Job 8:15 Job 27:6 Job 38:38 Psalms 33:9 Psalms 38:2 Psalms 41:8 Psalms 65:6 Psalms 89:28 Psalms 111:8 Proverbs 4:13 Isaiah 58:3 Isaiah 58:4 Isaiah 58:5 Isaiah 58:6 Jeremiah 8:5 Jeremiah 14:12 Jeremiah 36:9 Jeremiah 46:14 Jeremiah 48:16 Jeremiah 50:33 Joel 1:14 Joel 2:15 Jonah 1:5 Jonah 3:5 Zechariah 7:5 Zechariah 8:19 Matthew 6:16 Matthew 6:18 Matthew 9:14 Matthew 9:15 Matthew 26:48 Mark 2:18 Mark 2:19 Mark 2:20 Luke 5:33 Luke 5:34 Luke 5:35 Luke 18:12 Acts 16:24 Acts 27:9 Acts 27:41 1 Corinthians 16:13 Galatians 5:1 Philippians 1:27 Philippians 4:1 1 Thessalonians 3:8 1 Thessalonians 5:21 2 Thessalonians 2:15 2 Timothy 1:13 Titus 1:9 Hebrews 3:6 Hebrews 4:14 Hebrews 10:23 Revelation 2:13 Revelation 2:25 Revelation 3:3 Revelation 3:11

Where “fast” appears

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Definition evidence

1 · KJV context and cross-references

Genesis 20:18 1 Kings 21:12 Psalms 38:2 Jeremiah 8:5 Zechariah 8:19 Luke 5:34 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Revelation 3:11

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Skeat 1893

Open source edition ↗

firmly fixed.

printed p. 267; PDF p. 287; Internet Archive leaf n286