Word

צוֹם

tsôwm · H6685 · Hebrew · 26 occurrences

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Meanings

fasting

The action by which someone abstains from eating food, sometimes with mourning, prayer and sacrifices, out of grief, repentance or ritual, primarily to humble oneself before God and so be pleasing to him

Examples
2 Samuel 12:16 David therefore pleaded with God for the child; and David fasted and went and lay all night on the ground.
1 Kings 21:9 Now she had written in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people;
1 Kings 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth at the head of the people.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 5 groups

חֲמִישִׁיfifth 1
עֲשִׂירִיtenth 1
רְבִיעִיfourth 1
שְׁבִיעִיseventh 1
כֶםyour 1

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 5

What is done to itIt is the object

10 occurrences in 3 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 7
קָדַשׁto consecrate, to sanctify 2
צוּםto fast 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

זֶהthis 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 8
מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

יוֹםday, time 2
דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

νηστεία nēsteía · G3521 · to fast, fasting, to be quite hungry: Hebrew צוֹם and Greek νηστεία are direct translation equivalents denoting the practice of religious fasting/abstinence from food, with the Greek term rendering the Hebrew in LXX contexts including both general fasting observance and specific reference to the Day of Atonement fast.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Ingest002001001025: צוֹם denotes a fast, the act of abstaining from food, as of David's fast for his sick child in 2 Samuel 12:16, and the fast Jezebel proclaims against Naboth in 1 Kings 21:9 and 21:12, and Jehoshaphat's proclaimed fast in 2 Chronicles 20:3.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צוּם tsûwm · H6684 · to fast · 21×צוֹםtsôwm · H6685

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6685. tsom צוֺם noun masculineIsa 58:5 fasting, fast; — ׳צ absolute 2Sa 12:16 +,…

H6685. tsom
צוֺם noun masculineIsa 58:5 fasting, fast; — ׳צ absolute 2Sa 12:16 +, construct Zec 8:19 (4 t.); suffix צֹמְכֶם Isa 58:3; plural צוֺמוֺת Est 9:31; — fast, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb 2Sa 12:16; public observance 1Ki 21:9, 1Ki 21:12; 2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:21; Jer 36:9; Jon 3:5 (all object of קָרָא proclaim), compare Joe 1:14; Joe 2:15 (both object of קַדְּשׁוּ); צוֺם יוֺם Jer 36:6, צֹמְכֶם יוֺם Isa 58:3, compare Isa 58:5 (|| נַפְשׁוֺ אָדָם עַנּוֺת יוֺם), Isa 58:5; Isa 58:6; of periodic fasts Zec 8:19 (4 t. in verse); Est 9:31; act or state of fasting, בְצ ׳נֶאֶסְפוּ וּבְשַׂקִּים Neh 9:1 compare Joe 2:12; Dan 9:3; Est 4:3; בַצּ ׳עִנֵּיתִי נַפְשִׁי Psa 35:13; compare Psa 69:11 (on וָאֶבְכֶּה see Che Bae); causing physical weakness Psa 109:24.
צוע (√ of following; compare Arabic form, fashion).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Ingest26 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0