fast, fasting
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H6685 — צוֹם
tsom · fast · Hebrew/Aramaic
19 tagged verse occurrences
2 Samuel 12:16 · צ֔וֹםDavid 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 21:9 · צ֔וֹםIn the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.1 Kings 21:12 · צ֑וֹםThey proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.2 Chronicles 20:3 · צ֖וֹםJehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.Ezra 8:21 · צוֹם֙And 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 9:1 · בְּצ֣וֹםOn the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.Esther 4:3 · וְצ֥וֹםIn 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 · הַצֹּמ֖וֹתin 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.Psalm 35:13 · בַצּ֣וֹםYet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.Psalm 69:10 · בַצּ֣וֹםI wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.Psalm 109:24 · מִצּ֑וֹםMy knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.Isaiah 58:3 · צֹֽמְכֶם֙“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 · צ֣וֹם · צ֔וֹםIs 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 · צ֣וֹםIsn’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 36:6 · צ֑וֹםso 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 · צ֜וֹםNow 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 9:3 · בְּצ֖וֹםSo I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.Jonah 3:5 · צוֹם֙And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.Zechariah 8:19 · צ֣וֹם · וְצ֣וֹם · וְצ֨וֹם · וְצ֣וֹם“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.”