{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H6684",
  "lemma": "צוּם",
  "transliteration": "tsûwm",
  "definition": "to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast",
  "kjv": "[idiom] at all, fast.",
  "occurrences": 21,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[צוּם] vb. abstain from food, fast"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Judges 20:26",
      "text": "Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/20?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 7:6",
      "text": "They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/7?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 31:13",
      "text": "They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/31?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 1:12",
      "text": "They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 12:16",
      "text": "David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 12:21",
      "text": "Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 12:22",
      "text": "He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will not be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 12:23",
      "text": "But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 21:27",
      "text": "When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/21?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 58:3",
      "text": "‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=3"
    }
  ],
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