# H6685 צוֹם

צוֹם (tsôwm), Strong’s H6685: a fast KJV: fast(-ing).. Occurs 26 times.

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*tsôwm* — a fast

KJV: fast(-ing).

Derived from [צוּם tsûwm](https://besorah.bible/word/H6684) (to cover over)

Occurs 26 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- צוֹם n.m. fasting, fast

## Where it occurs
- [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.
- [1 Kings 21:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/21?v=9) — She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
- [1 Kings 21:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/21?v=12) — They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
- [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…
- [Isaiah 58:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=5) — 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…
- [Isaiah 58:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=6) — “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…
- [Jeremiah 36:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=6) — Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the LORD’s words, in the ears of the…
- [Jeremiah 36:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=9) — Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem…
- [Joel 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/1?v=14) — Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the…
- [Joel 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=12) — “Yet even now,” says the LORD, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”