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Lexicon :: Strong's H6685 - ṣôm

Aa
צוֹם
Transliteration
ṣôm
Pronunciation
tsome
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1890a

Strong’s Definitions

צוֹם tsôwm, tsome; or צֹם tsôm; from H6684; a fast:—fast(-ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 26x

The KJV translates Strong's H6685 in the following manner: fast (16x), fasting (9x), fasted (with H6684) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 26x
The KJV translates Strong's H6685 in the following manner: fast (16x), fasting (9x), fasted (with H6684) (1x).

  1. fast, fasting

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צוֹם tsôwm, tsome; or צֹם tsôm; from H6684; a fast:—fast(-ing).
STRONGS H6685: Abbreviations
† צוֺם noun masculineIsaiah 58:5 fasting, fast; — צ׳ absolute 2 Samuel 12:16 +, construct Zechariah 8:19 (4 times); suffix צֹמְכֶם Isaiah 58:3; plural צוֺמוֺת Esther 9:31; — fast, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb 2 Samuel 12:16; public observance 1 Kings 21:9, 12; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21; Jeremiah 36:9; Jonah 3:5 (all object of קָרָא proclaim), compare Joel 1:14; Joel 2:15 (both object of קַדְּשׁוּ); יוֺם צוֺם Jeremiah 36:6, יוֺם צֹמְכֶם Isaiah 58:3, compare Isaiah 58:5 (|| יוֺם עַנּוֺת אָדָם נַפְשׁוֺ), Isaiah 58:5; Isaiah 58:6; of periodic fasts Zechariah 8:19 (4 times in verse); Esther 9:31; act or state of fasting, וּבְשַׂקִּים נֶאֶסְפוּ בְצ׳ Nehemiah 9:1 compare Joel 2:12; Daniel 9:3; Esther 4:3; נַפְשִׁי עִנֵּיתִי בַצּ׳ Psalm 35:13; compare Psalm 69:11 (on וָאֶבְכֶּה see Che Bae); causing physical weakness Psalm 109:24.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

12:16; 12:16

1 Kings

21:9; 21:12

2 Chronicles

20:3

Ezra

8:21

Nehemiah

9:1

Esther

4:3; 9:31; 9:31

Psalms

35:13; 69:11; 109:24

Isaiah

58:3; 58:3; 58:5; 58:5; 58:5; 58:6

Jeremiah

36:6; 36:9

Daniel

9:3

Joel

1:14; 2:12; 2:15

Jonah

3:5

Zechariah

8:19; 8:19

H6685

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6685 matches the Hebrew צוֹם (ṣôm),
which occurs 26 times in 22 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9 - And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12 - They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3 - Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 - Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31 - Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10 - My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3 - They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come out from their towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 - Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12 - But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15 - Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:19 - This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.
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