'Fastings' in the Bible

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.