Fast
צוֹםStrong’s H6685tsom
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsom is the Hebrew word usually translated “fast”, “fasting” and “fast of”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:”
Meaning
- Fast, fasting
How it's translated
- a fast 10
- with fasting 4
- and fast of 3
- fast 2
- and fasting 1
- the fasts 1
- from fasting 1
- fasting your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 3
- Joel 3
- 1 Kings 2
- Esther 2
- Jeremiah 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 8:19In contextThus 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.
- 2 Samuel 12:16David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
- 1 Kings 21:9And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
- 1 Kings 21:12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
- 2 Chronicles 20:3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
- Ezra 8:21Then 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.
Hebrew dictionary
צוֹם tsom · fast
fast, fasting
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
F'AST, adjective
- Literally, set, stopped, fixed, or pressed close.
- Firm; immovable.“Who by his strength, setteth fast the mountains” Psalms 65:6
- Close; strong.
- Firmly fixed; closely adhering; as, to stick fast in more; to make fast a rope.
All definitions and other forms of “fast”
- Close, as sleep; deep; sound; as a fast sleep.
- Firm in adherence; as a fast friend.
F'AST, adverb
Firmly; immovably.
- “We will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hand” Judges 15:13
F'AST, adjective
[Latin festino. The sense is to press, drive, urge, and it may be from the same root as the preceding word, with a different application.]
F'AST, adverb
Swiftly; rapidly; with quick steps or progression; as, to run fast; to move fast through the water, as a ship; the work goes on fast
F'AST, verb intransitive
- To abstain from food, beyond the usual time; to omit to take the usual meals, for a time; as, to fast a day or a week.
- To abstain from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction.“Thou didst fast and weep for the child” 2 Samuel 12:21“When ye fast be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance” Matthew 6:16
- To abstain from food partially, or from particular kinds of food; as, the Catholics fast in Lent.
F'AST, noun
- Abstinence from food; properly a total abstinence, but it is used also for an abstinence from particular kinds of food, for a certain time.
- Voluntary abstinence from food, as a religious mortification or humiliation; either total or partial abstinence from customary food, with a view to mortify the appetites, or to express grief and affliction on account of some calamity, or to deprecate an expected evil.
- The time of fasting, whether a day, week or longer time.“The fast was now already past” Acts 27:9
F'AST, noun
That which fastens or holds.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.