{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H6685",
  "lemma": "צוֹם",
  "transliteration": "tsôwm",
  "definition": "a fast",
  "kjv": "fast(-ing).",
  "occurrences": 26,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H6684",
      "lemma": "צוּם",
      "transliteration": "tsûwm",
      "meaning": "to cover over",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6684"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "צוֹם n.m. fasting, fast"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "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": "1 Kings 21:9",
      "text": "She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/21?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 21:12",
      "text": "They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/21?v=12"
    },
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 58:5",
      "text": "Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 58:6",
      "text": "“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 36:6",
      "text": "Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the LORD’s words, in the ears of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 36:9",
      "text": "Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joel 1:14",
      "text": "Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/1?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joel 2:12",
      "text": "“Yet even now,” says the LORD, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=12"
    }
  ],
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