Strong's #6684: tsuwm (pronounced tsoom)
a primitive root; to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast:--X at all, fast.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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tsûm
1) (Qal) to abstain from food, fast
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 21 times:
Judges 20:26: "there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even,"
1 Samuel 7:6: "and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there,"
1 Samuel 31:13: "them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days."
2 Samuel 1:12: "And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for"
2 Samuel 12:16: "for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all"
2 Samuel 12:21: "is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive;"
2 Samuel 12:22: "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who"
2 Samuel 12:23: "he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again?"
1 Kings 21:27: "sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly."
1 Chronicles 10:12: "under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days."
Ezra 8:23: " So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated"
Nehemiah 1:4: "and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God"
Esther 4:16: "the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor"
Esther 4:16: "I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto"
Isaiah 58:3: "Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?"
Isaiah 58:4: "Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not"
Isaiah 58:4: "with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high."
Jeremiah 14:12: "When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer"
Zechariah 7:5: "the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those"
Zechariah 7:5: "month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?"
Zechariah 7:5: "month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?"
