{"derivation": "from G3522 (\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1);", "kjv_def": " fast(-ing)", "lemma": "\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1", "frequency": 3, "strongs_def": " abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement", "outline": "<ol><li> a fasting, fast<ol><li> a voluntary, as a religious exercise<ol><li> of private fasting</li><li> 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</li></ol><li> a fasting caused by want or poverty</li></ol></li></ol>"}