fast, fasting
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H6685 — צוֹם
tsom · fast · Hebrew/Aramaic
19 tagged verse occurrences
2 Samuel 12:16 · צ֔וֹםDavid therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.1 Kings 21:9 · צ֔וֹםShe wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.1 Kings 21:12 · צ֑וֹםThey proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.2 Chronicles 20:3 · צ֖וֹםJehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.Ezra 8:21 · צוֹם֙Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.Nehemiah 9:1 · בְּצ֣וֹםNow in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.Esther 4:3 · וְצ֥וֹםIn every province, wherever 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 · הַצֹּמ֖וֹתto confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.Psalm 35:13 · בַצּ֣וֹםBut as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.Psalm 69:10 · בַצּ֣וֹםWhen I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.Psalm 109:24 · מִצּ֑וֹםMy knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.Isaiah 58:3 · צֹֽמְכֶם֙‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.Isaiah 58:5 · צ֣וֹם · צ֔וֹםIs such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?Isaiah 58:6 · צ֣וֹם“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?Jeremiah 36:6 · צ֑וֹםtherefore you go, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.Jeremiah 36:9 · צ֜וֹםNow it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.Daniel 9:3 · בְּצ֖וֹםI set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.Jonah 3:5 · צוֹם֙The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.Zechariah 8:19 · צ֣וֹם · וְצ֣וֹם · וְצ֨וֹם · וְצ֣וֹםThus says Yahweh of Armies: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”