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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

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

The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

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.

    2 Samuel 12:16

    • 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.

    1 Kings 21:9

    • צ֔וֹםtzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
  • They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

    1 Kings 21:12

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 20:3

    • 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.

    Ezra 8:21

    • 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.

    Nehemiah 9:1

    • 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.

    Esther 4:3

    • 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.

    Esther 9:31

    • 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.

    Psalms 35:13

    • בַצּ֣וֹםvatzompreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the fasting
  • I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

    Psalms 69:10

    • בַצּ֣וֹםvatzompreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the fasting
  • My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

    Psalms 109:24

    • 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.

    Isaiah 58:3

    • 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?

    Isaiah 58:5

    • 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?

    Isaiah 58:6

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 36:6

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 36:9

    • 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.

    Daniel 9:3

    • 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.

    Joel 1:14

    • צוֹם֙tzomnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fast
  • “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

    Joel 2:12

    • וּבְצ֥וֹםuvetzomconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with fasting
  • Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

    Joel 2:15

    • 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.

    Jonah 3:5

    • 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.”

    Zechariah 8:19

    • 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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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