עָצַר

a.tsar · to restrain

Hebrew · Strong's H6113 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-tsar' · 47 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble; [idiom] be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, [idiom] reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עָצַר 46 vb. restrain, retain
Qal
1. restrain
2. (late) retain
Niph. be restrained, stayed
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Every occurrence

  1. 1 Chronicles 12:1 עָצ֔וּר 'a.Tzur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

  2. 1 Chronicles 21:22 וְתֵעָצַ֥ר ve.te.'a.Tzar · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah: for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

  3. 1 Chronicles 29:14 נַעְצֹ֣ר na'.Tzor · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

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