Strong's Hebrew · H6685

צוֹם

tsôwm · tsome

Definitiona fast
Derivationor צֹם; from H6684 (צוּם);
KJV usagefast(-ing).
Occurrences26 in the KJV · 22 verses

צוֹם in Scripture

2 Samuel 12:16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 1 Kings 21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 1 Kings 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 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 ones, and for all our substance. 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. Esther 4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king' s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. Esther 9:31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed , according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. 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. Psalms 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. Psalms 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 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 find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
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