צוֹם
tsôwm · tsome
a fast
Lexicon
Derivation: or צֹם; from H6684 (צוּם);
a fast
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: fast(-ing).
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › to fasten and establish › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To pursue the straight path that works to fasten and establish of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צוֹם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
26 occurrences · 26 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a fast8 · 31%
- with fasting4 · 15%
- and the fast2 · 8%
- fasted1 · 4%
- and fasting1 · 4%
- of the fastings1 · 4%
- through fasting1 · 4%
- of your fast1 · 4%
- is it such a fast1 · 4%
- is not this the fast1 · 4%
- upon the fasting1 · 4%
- ye a fast1 · 4%
- and with fasting1 · 4%
- the fast1 · 4%
- month, and the fast1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.