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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Fasting
Thompson Chain Reference
• Hold Fast
• Fasts Proclaimed
• Fasting
The Topic Concordance
• Fasting
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Fasting
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Movable Feasts and Fasts
• Fasts, Table of
• Fasting Communion
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American Tract Society
• Fasting
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Fasting
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Fast, Fasting
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Fasting
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Fast of Gedaliah
• Fast of Esther
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Fast, Fasting
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Fast
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Fasting
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Fasting
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Fasting
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Fasting (2)
• Fasting
• Fast, the
King James Dictionary
• Fasting
• Fast
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Fast, Fasting
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Long Fasting Hath Thy Body Tamed
• Fast, Black
• Fast, As Taught by Holy Lore, the
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Fasting
• Fast
People's Bible Dictionary
• Fasts
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Fasts
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Stick Fast
• Fast, Fasting
• Fast
Wilson's Bible Types
• Fast
Webster Dictionary
• Fastness
• Fasting
• Fasted
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Fasting
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Fast and Loose
• Fasting
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Fast; Fasting
• Fasts and Feasts
• Feasts, and Fasts
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Fasts
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Apostles Festivals, Fasts, Etc
• Esther, Fast of
• Fast
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Fast
• The Black Fast
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Fasting and Fast-Days
Lexicons
• ܨܳܡ
• ܨܰܘܡܳܐ
• ܨܰܝܳܡܳܐ
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• ἀντέχω
• ἄσιτος
• ἀσφαλίζω
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• אָחוזּ אָחַז, , אָחַז
• אָמַן , אָמַן
• אָסְפַּרְנָא
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Isaiah 58:6 (a) The description given in this passage reveals that true fasting is not necessarily abstaining from food. The abstaining from food in itself evidently has little, if any, value in GOD's sight. It is the leaving of the duty of preparing and eating the meal, so that there may be time for serving others, for prayer for others, and for enriching the soul from GOD's Word. Several hours a day are consumed in preparing and eating meals. That time may well be used once in a while for more profitable service and devotion. From five to seven hours a day are consumed in preparing meals, eating them, and in cleaning up after them. Fasting eliminates the loss of that time, so that the person may devote himself fully to the things of GOD, both for his own blessing, and the blessing of others. (See Matthew 6:17; Mark 2:19; Luke 18:12; Acts 13:2).