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Matthew 17:21
Textus Receptus (Stephanus 1550)
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
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abstinence (from lack of food or voluntary and religious); specifically the fast of the Day of Atonement
1. a fasting, fast
a. 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
b. a fasting caused by want or poverty
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.