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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 therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:9 - And she wrote in the letters, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:12 - they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3 - Then Jehosh'aphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Aha'va, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 - Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth upon their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31 - that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mor'decai the Jew and Queen Esther enjoined upon the Jews, and as they had laid down for themselves and for their descendants, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - But I, when they were sick--I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:10 - When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3 - 'Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and 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 fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - so you are to go, and on a fast day in the hearing of all the people in the LORD's house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll which you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - In the fifth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 - Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God; and cry to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12 - "Yet even now," says the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15 - Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - And the people of Nin'eveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:19 - "Thus says 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 house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.
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