fastings To confirm these days of Purim in their times [appointed], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the {fastings} and their cry. fastings And she was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God] with {fastings} and prayers night and day. fastings <2CO6 -5> In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in {fastings}; fastings <2CO11 -27> In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in {fastings} often, in cold and nakedness. ~~~~~~