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 →

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.
• My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
• Eid al-Fitr is the Muslim festival that ends Ramadan, a month of fasting from dawn to sunset.
• Yom Kippur, in autumn, is the holiest day of the Jewish year, a day of fasting and saying sorry.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fasting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.