Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6685
צוֹם
tsomtsome
fast
26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsôwm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6685is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6685
a fast
The King James renders it: fast(-ing).
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
tsom is rendered "fast". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 12:16David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
2 Samuel 12:16צ֔וֹם
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
- a fast10
- and fast of3
- fast2
- with fasting2
- with the fasting2
- and fasting1
- and with fasting1
- fast of1
- fasting1
- fasting your1
- from fasting1
- the fasts1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- צ֔וֹם3
- צ֣וֹם3
- צוֹם֙3
- בַצּ֣וֹם2
- וְצ֣וֹם2
- צ֑וֹם2
- צ֖וֹם2
- בְּצ֣וֹם1
- בְּצ֖וֹם1
- הַצֹּמ֖וֹת1
- וּבְצ֥וֹם1
- וְצ֨וֹם1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular13HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HC/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp2mp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HTd/Ncfpa
2 Samuel
one use
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- צ֔וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
1 Kings
two uses
In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
- צ֔וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
- צ֑וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
2 Chronicles
one use
Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
- צ֖וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
Ezra
one use
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.
- צוֹם֙tzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
Nehemiah
one use
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.
- בְּצ֣וֹםbetzompreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with fasting
Esther
two uses
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.
- וְצ֥וֹםvetzomconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and fasting
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.
- הַצֹּמ֖וֹתhatzomotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the fasts
Psalms
three uses
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
- בַצּ֣וֹםvatzompreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the fasting
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
- בַצּ֣וֹםvatzompreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the fasting
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
- מִצּ֑וֹםmitzompreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from fasting
Isaiah
four 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.
- צֹֽמְכֶם֙tzomekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: fasting your
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
- צ֣וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: fast
- צ֔וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
- צ֣וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: fast
Jeremiah
two uses
so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.
- צ֑וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: fasting
Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.
- צ֜וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
Daniel
one use
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- בְּצ֖וֹםbetzompreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with fasting
Joel
three uses
Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
- צוֹם֙tzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- וּבְצ֥וֹםuvetzomconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with fasting
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
- צ֖וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
Jonah
one use
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
- צוֹם֙tzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
Zechariah
four uses
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
- צ֣וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: fast of
- וְצ֣וֹםvetzomconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and fast of
- וְצ֨וֹםvetzomconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and fast of
- וְצ֣וֹםvetzomconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and fast of
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.
