# צוֹם (tsom)

Israeli respelling: tsom. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6685. 22 Old Testament occurrences.

a fast

King James renderings: fast(-ing).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tsom-h6685

## Occurrences

- [2 Samuel 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/12) — They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
- [2 Chronicles 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/3) — And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
- [Ezra 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, a…
- [Nehemiah 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 the…
- [Esther 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Esther 9:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Psalms 35:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/10) — When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
- [Psalms 109:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/24) — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
- [Isaiah 58:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 58:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 58:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 36:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 36:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Daniel 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/3) — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
- [Joel 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Joel 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Joel 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/15) — Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
- [Jonah 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Zechariah 8:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ten…