Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H6685
צוֹם
tsom · “fast”
Used 26 times across 13 books
Definition
fast, fasting
Where it appears
2 Samuel1
1 Kings2
2 Chronicles1
Ezra1
Nehemiah1
Esther2
Psalms3
Isaiah4
Jeremiah2
Daniel1
Joel3
Jonah1
Zechariah4
In the text
2 Samuel 12:16David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.1 Kings 21:9And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:1 Kings 21:12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.2 Chronicles 20:3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.Ezra 8:21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.Nehemiah 9:1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.Esther 4:3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.Esther 9:31To 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.Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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