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צוֹם H6685
H6685 is the Hebrew word צוֹם, transliterated tsôwm and said tsome. The King James Version most often renders it fast.
What it means
a fast.
Where it comes from
or צֹם; from H6684 (צוּם).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 26 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: fast(-ing).
Verses using צוֹם
All 22 verses, quoted in full.
2 Samuel 12:16 · KJV
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
1 Kings 21:9 · KJV
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
1 Kings 21:12 · KJV
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
2 Chronicles 20:3 · KJV
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Ezra 8:21 · KJV
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Nehemiah 9:1 · KJV
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Esther 4:3 · KJV
And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther 9:31 · KJV
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Psalm 35:13 · KJV
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Psalm 69:10 · KJV
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalm 109:24 · KJV
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Isaiah 58:3 · KJV
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Isaiah 58:5 · KJV
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isaiah 58:6 · KJV
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Jeremiah 36:6 · KJV
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Jeremiah 36:9 · KJV
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:3 · KJV
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Joel 1:14 · KJV
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
Joel 2:12 · KJV
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joel 2:15 · KJV
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Jonah 3:5 · KJV
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Zechariah 8:19 · KJV
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
Common questions
What does Strong's H6685 mean?
H6685 is the Hebrew word צוֹם (tsôwm), meaning a fast.
How is H6685 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it fast (14 times), fasting (7 times), fasted (1 time), fastings (1 time), through fasting (1 time), among others.
How many times does H6685 appear in the Bible?
צוֹם (tsôwm) is tagged in 22 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H6685 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: or צֹם; from H6684 (צוּם).
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