Gematria of Fast
6 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “fast” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 471 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 6
- Occurrences
- 471
- Distinct values
- 5
The 6 Hebrew words rendered “fast”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:31בראשית א:לאמְאֹד
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
First appearance ·Genesis 39:20בראשית לט:כאסורי
to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
First appearance ·Genesis 16:2בראשית טז:בעֲצָרַנִי
to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast
First appearance ·Judges 20:26שופטים כ:כווַיָּצוּמוּ
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What is the gematria of fast?
The Tanakh renders “fast” with 6 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: מאד = 45, אסר = 261, צום = 136, and 2 more.
How do you say fast in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 6 Hebrew words for “fast”; the most frequent are מאד (mᵉʼôd), 300 times; אסר (ʼâçar), 71 times; צום (tsôwm), 47 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.