{"def":{"short":"abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement","long":["a fasting, fast",["a voluntary, as a religious exercise",["of private fasting","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"],"a fasting caused by want or poverty"]]},"deriv":"from G3522","pronun":{"ipa":"neˈsti.ɑ","ipa_mod":"ne̞ˈsti.ɑ","sbl":"nēsteia","dic":"nay-STEE-ah","dic_mod":"nay-STEE-ah"},"see":["G3522"]}