צוֹם tsom

Hebrew word for “fast” · Strong’s H6685 · used 26 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

fast, fasting

How it is translated

Glosses given for tsom in context, with how often each is used:

• fast 16
• fasting 9
• fasts 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Isaiah 58 (3), 1 Kings 21 (2), Jeremiah 36 (2), Joel 2 (2), 2 Samuel 12 (1), 2 Chronicles 20 (1), Ezra 8 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Esther 4 (1), Esther 9 (1)

Forms

• צום 14
• בצום 4
• וצום 4
• הצמות 1
• מצום 1
• צמכם 1
• ובצום 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tsom more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שַׂק saq “sackcloth” 6
• קָרָא qara “to call” 10
• עָנָה anah “to afflict” 4
• אֵפֶר epher “ashes” 3
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 5
• יָצַע yatsa “to lay” 2
• עֲצָרָה atsarah “assembly” 2
• מִסְפֵּד misped “mourning” 2
• צוּם tsum “to fast” 2
• נָבוֹת navot “Naboth” 2
• בָּקַשׁ baqash “to seek” 3
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 4

Key verses

The verses using tsom that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Chronicles 20:3 — And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
• Ezra 8:21 — Then 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…
• Nehemiah 9:1 — Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
• Psalms 35:13 — But 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.
• Isaiah 58:3 — Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye…
• Isaiah 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under…
• Isaiah 58:6 — Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every…
• Daniel 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
• Joel 1:14 — Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
• Joel 2:12 — Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
• Jonah 3:5 — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
• Zechariah 8:19 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.