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fasting

Meaning of “fasting”

Present-participial or verbal-noun form of fast, meaning to abstain from food for a time.

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17 occurrences17 verses10 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Nehemiah 9:1

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Mark 8:3
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
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1611 witness · Mark 8:3 · retained source text

And if I send them away fasting to their owne houses, they will faint by the way: for diuers of them came from farre.

Mark 9:29
And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
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1611 witness · Mark 9:29 · retained source text

And hee said vnto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer, and fasting.

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