H6685 - צוֹם (tsôwm)

H6685 צוֹם (tsôwm) tsome

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

fast

Strong's Definition

a fast

Derivation: or צֹם; from H6684 (צוּם);

KJV Usage: fast(-ing).

TWOT Reference: 1890a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) fast, fasting

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3521

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

fast, fasting

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

צֹם / צוֹם tsôm BDB Definition: 1) fast, fasting Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6684 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1890a Total KJV Occurrences: 25

Bible Occurrences (22)

12:16

21:9 21:12

20:3

8:21

9:1

4:3 9:31

35:13 69:10 109:24

58:3 58:5 58:6

36:6 36:9

9:3

1:14 2:12 2:15

3:5

8:19

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted... and went into his house and spent the night lying [in sackcloth] on the ground.

1 Kings 21:9

In the letters... she wrote: Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

1 Kings 21:12

They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout... Judah.

Ezra 8:21

And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed... a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for... a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

Nehemiah 9:1

On the twenty-fourth... day of the same month, the Israelites... gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.

Esther 4:3

In every province... to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 9:31

in order to confirm these days of Purim at their [appointed] time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them [and] had committed... themselves... and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.