'Fastings' in the Bible

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

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.