Tsom צוֹם

Tsom (Hebrew צוֹם, Strong's H6685) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “fast”. It occurs 26 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Fasting

Verses

Every verse with Tsom, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 12:16
  David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 21:9
  And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
• 1 Kings 21:12
  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 20:3
  And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

Ezra

• 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.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.

Nehemiah

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

Esther

• 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.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.
• 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.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.

Psalms

• Psalm 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.Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
• Psalm 69:10
  When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
• Psalm 109:24
  My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

Isaiah

• 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.“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.
• Isaiah 58:5
  Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?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?
• Isaiah 58:6
  Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?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?

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 36:6
  Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.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.
• Jeremiah 36:9
  And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.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.

Daniel

• Daniel 9:3
  And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Joel

• Joel 1:14
  Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,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.
• Joel 2:12
  Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
• Joel 2:15
  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

Jonah

• Jonah 3:5
  So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 8:19
  Thus saith 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 joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.“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.”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).