Hebrew verb · H6684
צוּם
tsumtsoom
to fast
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsûwm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6684is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6684
to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast
The King James renders it: [idiom] at all, fast.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tsum is rendered "to fast". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 20:26Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
Judges 20:26וַיָּצ֥וּמוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they fasted5
- and he fasted2
- fasting2
- you fast2
- you fasted2
- ¿ really to fast1
- and fast1
- and we fasted1
- did you fast for me1
- have we fasted1
- I fasted1
- I will fast1
and 1 more, 21 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיָּצֻ֖מוּ2
- אָצ֣וּם1
- הֲצ֥וֹם1
- וַיָּצ֑וֹם1
- וַיָּצ֥וּמוּ1
- וַיָּצ֙וּמוּ֙1
- וַיָּצ֖וּמוּ1
- וַיָּ֤צָם1
- וַנָּצ֛וּמָה1
- וְצ֣וּמוּ1
- יָצֻ֗מוּ1
- צָ֔ם1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3mp5Hc/Vqw3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms2Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vqv2mp
- Hc/Vqw1cp/Sh1Hc/Vqw1cp/Sh
- question particle + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HTi/Vqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HVqp1cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqp2mp
Judges
one use
Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
- וַיָּצ֥וּמוּvaiyatzumuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fasted
1 Samuel
two uses
When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
- וַיָּצ֙וּמוּ֙vaiyatzumuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fasted
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
- וַיָּצֻ֖מוּvaiyatzumuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fasted
2 Samuel
five uses
They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
- וַיָּצֻ֖מוּvaiyatzumuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fasted
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- וַיָּ֤צָםvaiyatzomHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fasted
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
- צַ֣מְתָּtzamtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you fasted
David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
- צַ֖מְתִּיtzamtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I fasted
But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
- צָ֔םtzamverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fasting
1 Kings
one use
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
- וַיָּצ֑וֹםvaiyatzomHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fasted
1 Chronicles
one use
all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
- וַיָּצ֖וּמוּvaiyatzumuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they fasted
Ezra
one use
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.
- וַנָּצ֛וּמָהvanatzumahHc/Vqw1cp/Shtagged: and we fasted
Nehemiah
one use
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
- צָם֙tzamverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: fasting
Esther
two uses
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
- וְצ֣וּמוּvetzumuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and fast
- אָצ֣וּםʾatzumverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will fast
Isaiah
three uses
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
- צַּ֙מְנוּ֙tzamnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: have we fasted
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
- תָּצ֔וּמוּtatzumuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you fast
- תָצ֣וּמוּtatzumuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you fast
Jeremiah
one use
Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
- יָצֻ֗מוּyatzumuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will fast
Zechariah
three uses
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
- צַמְתֶּ֨םtzamtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you fasted
- הֲצ֥וֹםhatzomquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: ¿ really to fast
- צַמְתֻּ֖נִיtzamtuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: did you fast for me
The letters
Gematria 136· 696 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
