[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fasting.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / fasting

[← F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/F/)

# fasting

«fasting» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Going without food, often for religious reasons** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Going without food, often for religious reasons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fasting/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The word names the discipline of going without food to show sorrow and repentance. Interpretation: Jewish tradition keeps fasts such as Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av, and the prophets say a fast must come with justice and kindness.

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [And I wept with my soul fasting, and that became unto me a reproach.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1138/)
- [My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2038/)
- [Eid al-Fitr is the Muslim festival that ends Ramadan, a month of fasting from dawn to sunset.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/11/)
- [Yom Kippur, in autumn, is the holiest day of the Jewish year, a day of fasting and saying sorry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fasting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fasting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.