Genesis 20:18
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
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For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Read in context →Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Read in context →7 occurrences in 5 verses.
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nēsteúō · nace-tyoo'-o
to abstain from food (religiously)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fast.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:16Strong's last: Luke 18:12
Open full G3522 profile →tsôwm · tsome
a fast
Strong's KJV usage: fast(-ing).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 21:9Strong's last: Zechariah 8:19
Open full H6685 profile →tsûwm · tsoom
to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, fast.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 12:21Strong's last: Zechariah 7:5
Open full H6684 profile →stḗkō · stay'-ko
to be stationary, i.e. (figuratively) to persevere
Strong's KJV usage: :--stand (fast).
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 16:13Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 2:15
Open full G4739 profile →kratéō · krat-eh'-o
to use strength, i.e. seize or retain (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hold (by, fast), keep, lay hand (hold) on, obtain, retain, take (by).
Strong's first: Matthew 26:48Strong's last: Revelation 3:11
Open full G2902 profile →katéchō · kat-ekh'-o
to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, X make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold.
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 5:21Strong's last: Hebrews 10:23
Open full G2722 profile →ʼâçar · aw-sar'
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
Strong's KJV usage: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
Strong's first: Judges 15:13Strong's last: Judges 16:11
Open full H631 profile →dâbaq · daw-bak'
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
Strong's KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Strong's first: Ruth 2:21Strong's last: Ruth 2:23
Open full H1692 profile →châzaq · khaw-zak'
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
Strong's KJV usage: aid, amend, × calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Strong's first: Job 2:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:33
Open full H2388 profile →antéchomai · an-tekh'-om-ahee
to hold oneself opposite to, i.e. (by implication) adhere to; by extension to care for
Strong's KJV usage: :--hold fast, hold to, support.
Strong's first: Titus 1:9Strong's last: Titus 1:9
Open full G472 profile →asphalízō · as-fal-id'-zo
to render secure
Strong's KJV usage: :--make fast (sure).
Strong's first: Acts 16:24Strong's last: Acts 16:24
Open full G805 profile →ereídō · er-i'-do
to prop, i.e. (reflexively) get fast
Strong's KJV usage: :--stick fast.
Strong's first: Acts 27:41Strong's last: Acts 27:41
Open full G2043 profile →échō · ekh'-o
to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, + lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, + recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, + uncircumcised, use.
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 1:13Strong's last: 2 Timothy 1:13
Open full G2192 profile →nēsteía · nace-ti'-ah
abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
Strong's KJV usage: :-- fast(-ing).
Strong's first: Acts 27:9Strong's last: Acts 27:9
Open full G3521 profile →tēréō · tay-reh'-o
to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
Strong's first: Revelation 3:3Strong's last: Revelation 3:3
Open full G5083 profile →ʼâman · aw-man'
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;
Strong's KJV usage: hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Strong's first: Psalms 89:28Strong's last: Psalms 89:28
Open full H539 profile →ʼoçparnâʼ · os-par-naw'
diligently
Strong's KJV usage: fast, forthwith, speed(-ily).
Strong's first: Ezra 5:8Strong's last: Ezra 5:8
Open full H629 profile →yâtsab · yaw-tsab'
to place (any thing so as to stay); reflexively, to station, offer, continue
Strong's KJV usage: present selves, remaining, resort, set (selves), (be able to, can, with-) stand (fast, forth, -ing, still, up).
Strong's first: Jeremiah 46:14Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:14
Open full H3320 profile →yâtsaq · yaw-tsak'
properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
Strong's KJV usage: cast, cleave fast, be (as) firm, grow, be hard, lay out, molten, overflow, pour (out), run out, set down, stedfast.
Strong's first: Psalms 41:8Strong's last: Psalms 41:8
Open full H3332 profile →kûwn · koon
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
Strong's KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, × very deed.
Strong's first: Psalms 65:6Strong's last: Psalms 65:6
Open full H3559 profile →lâchats · law-khats'
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to distress
Strong's KJV usage: afflict, crush, force, hold fast, oppress(-or), thrust self.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 6:32Strong's last: 2 Kings 6:32
Open full H3905 profile →mᵉʼôd · meh-ode'
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
Strong's KJV usage: diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast, good, great(-ly), × louder and louder, might(-ily, -y), (so) much, quickly, (so) sore, utterly, very ( much, sore), well.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 48:16Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:16
Open full H3966 profile →nâchath · naw-khath'
to sink, i.e. descend; causatively, to press or lead down
Strong's KJV usage: be broken, (cause to) come down, enter, go down, press sore, settle, stick fast.
Strong's first: Psalms 38:2Strong's last: Psalms 38:2
Open full H5181 profile →çâmak · saw-mak'
to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)
Strong's KJV usage: bear up, establish, (up-) hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.
Strong's first: Psalms 111:8Strong's last: Psalms 111:8
Open full H5564 profile →ʻâmad · aw-mad'
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Strong's KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-) stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Strong's first: Psalms 33:9Strong's last: Psalms 33:9
Open full H5975 profile →ʻâtsâr · aw-tsar'
to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
Strong's KJV usage: × be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, × reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).
Strong's first: Genesis 20:18Strong's last: Genesis 20:18
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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
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F'AST, adjective
1. Literally, set, stopped, fixed, or pressed close. Hence, close; tight; as, make fast the door; take fast hold.
2. Firm; immovable.
Who by his strength, setteth fast the mountains. Psalms 115:1.
3. Close; strong.
Robbers and outlaws - lurking in woods and fast places.
4. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; as, to stick fast in more; to make fast a rope.
5. Close, as sleep; deep; sound; as a fast sleep.
6. Firm in adherence; as a fast friend.
Fast and loose, variable; inconstant; as, to play fast and loose.
F'AST, adverb Firmly; immovably.
We will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hand. Judges 15:13.
F'AST, adjective [Latin festino. The sense is to press, drive, urge, and it may be from the same root as the preceding word, with a different application.]
Swift; moving rapidly; quick in motion; as a fast horse.
F'AST, adverb Swiftly; rapidly; with quick steps or progression; as, to run fast; to move fast through the water, as a ship; the work goes on fast
F'AST, verb intransitive
1. To abstain from food, beyond the usual time; to omit to take the usual meals, for a time; as, to fast a day or a week.
2. To abstain from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Samuel 12:21.
When ye fast be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. Matthew 6:16.
3. To abstain from food partially, or from particular kinds of food; as, the Catholics fast in Lent.
F'AST, noun
1. Abstinence from food; properly a total abstinence, but it is used also for an abstinence from particular kinds of food, for a certain time.
Happy were our forefathers, who broke their fasts with herbs.
2. Voluntary abstinence from food, as a religious mortification or humiliation; either total or partial abstinence from customary food, with a view to mortify the appetites, or to express grief and affliction on account of some calamity, or to deprecate an expected evil.
3. The time of fasting, whether a day, week or longer time. An annual fast is kept in New England, usually one day in the spring.
The fast was now already past. Acts 27:9.
F'AST, noun That which fastens or holds.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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