# H6684 צוּם

צוּם (tsûwm), Strong’s H6684: to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast KJV: [idiom] at all, fast.. Occurs 21 times.

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*tsûwm* — to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast

KJV: [idiom] at all, fast.

Occurs 21 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [צוּם] vb. abstain from food, fast

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 20:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/20?v=26) — Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before the…
- [1 Samuel 7:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/7?v=6) — They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said…
- [1 Samuel 31:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/31?v=13) — They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- [2 Samuel 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=12) — They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for…
- [2 Samuel 12:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=16) — David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.
- [2 Samuel 12:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=21) — Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive…
- [2 Samuel 12:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=22) — He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will not be…
- [2 Samuel 12:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/12?v=23) — 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.”
- [1 Kings 21:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/21?v=27) — When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about…
- [Isaiah 58:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=3) — ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in…