צוּםtsûwm

Meanings

Same root

• צוֹםtsôwm · H6685a fast

Where it appears

Appears 21 times in the Bible.

• Judges 20:26 Then all the Israelites went up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the Lord and fasted until evening. They also brought burnt offerings and peace offerings to the Lord.
• 1 Samuel 7:6 So they gathered at Mizpah and, in a great ceremony, drew water from a well and poured it out before the Lord. They also went without food all day and confessed that they had sinned against the Lord. (It was at Mizpah that Samuel became Israel’s judge.)
• 1 Samuel 31:13 Then they took their bones and buried them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
• 2 Samuel 1:12 They mourned and wept and fasted all day for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the Lord’s army and the nation of Israel, because they had died by the sword that day.
• 2 Samuel 12:16 David begged God to spare the child. He went without food and lay all night on the bare ground.
• 2 Samuel 12:21 His advisers were amazed. “We don’t understand you,” they told him. “While the child was still living, you wept and refused to eat. But now that the child is dead, you have stopped your mourning and are eating again.”