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tsom H6685

צוֹם (tsom) means “fast” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

צוֹם Hebrew · H6685 26 tagged occurrences in 22 verses

Pronunciation guide: tsome Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6685

צוֹם · tsom · fast

fast, fasting

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or צֹם; from H6684 (צוּם); a fast

KJV glosses: fast(-ing).

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How translators render H6685

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
a fast 9
with fasting 3
of fasting 2
the fast 2
and 1
and fasted 1
fasting 1
from fasting 1
of your fast 1
the fasts 1
they fasted 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
a fast 8
with fasting 4
and the fast 3
and fasting 1
and with fasting 1
fasted 1
is it such a fast 1
not this the fast 1
of the fastings 1
of your fast 1
the fast 1
through fasting 1
upon the fasting 1
ye a fast 1

Verses containing H6685

Page 1 of 1. 22 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. 2 Samuel 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

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  2. 1 Kings 21:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

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  3. 1 Kings 21:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

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  4. 2 Chronicles 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

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  5. Ezra 8:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And 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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  6. Nehemiah 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.

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  7. Esther 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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  8. Esther 9:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.

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  9. Psalms 35:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

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  10. Psalms 69:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

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    Source alternate reference: 69.11

  11. Psalms 109:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

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  12. Isaiah 58:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

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  13. Isaiah 58:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?

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  14. Isaiah 58:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

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  15. Jeremiah 36:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.

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  16. Jeremiah 36:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.

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  17. Daniel 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

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  18. Joel 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

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  19. Joel 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

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  20. Joel 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

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  21. Jonah 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

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  22. Zechariah 8:19 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

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