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Lexicon :: Strong's H6685 - ṣôm

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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 Box 2Sa 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth[fn] on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9 - In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12 - They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3 - Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the LORD, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 - On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31 - to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10 - When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3 - ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:6 - “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 - Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12 - “Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15 - Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:19 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.”
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